Audacity Forum

Another note, Macs have no internal capacity to record themselves like most PCs do. When you were recording the bad audio, you were recording the built-in microphone. If you had a dog barking, you would have gotten that, too.

Koz

Total Recorder is an automated recording package that can be formatted to do a lot of these tricks on Windows. It's a money-based solution.

I think Audacity 1.3.11 can be configured to start and stop. I don't know if it can be configured to start and stop and start and stop.

Koz

Throw the first one on a track (File > Open), End the cursor and Import the next one. Lather, rinse, repeat. In each case, Control-F to make visible the full show on the timeline. Export as MP3. Make sure you can do the whole process, beginning to end, with a two-minute segment before you commit a 1...

Pure statement of fact. When you install Audacity, it wakes up the first time (first birthday) all set for maximum visibility of edits, sound manipulation, and effects management, not analysis.

Koz

Before we go too far with this, I don't know the format of an audiobook, but a Music CD can only hold 79:30. Just under 80 minutes, no matter what. Music CDs aren't data or compression bound, they're time bound. Does this fit in with your scenario? Were you able to open up any of your ripped work an...

<<<Is any of that right ? >>> That's pretty dangerous. Audacity Projects are misunderstood, brittle, complex, and easily damaged. You should Export as WAV to get a simple, high quality, self-contained sound file that you can archive and copy to other locations. You can't move Audacity Projects. You ...

It should be right there in the regular folder and be named something.bak. There is one other reason you could have a hole in your Project. If you use original separate music files in your show, Audacity will not pull the music into itself for editing. It leaves the files where they are and plays th...

Did you try Edit > Undo? <<<When I went back to the file>>> That means you closed the computer and turned it back on the next day? I wonder if Auto Save got you in trouble.... No, Auto Save should have used a separate folder. Are you sure you're opening up the original show and not the Auto Save ver...

Oh, and I would not be doing any of this in Audacity 1.2. Download and start using Audacity 1.3.11.

You can install both versions safely, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

You are not wanting an audio production system, you are wanting a surveillance system. You can go to multiple hours with Audacity, but the requirements of the computer go nuts and seriously magic things start to happen. For one, we recommend Exporting As WAV as a first step in any production. WAV fi...