Audacity Forum

<<<Or possibly stick a magnet to your apparatus and position the head from a tape deck close to, but not touching it, >>> That won't do DC. Moving coil or moving magnets are all velocity systems. The faster the movement, the larger the output signal, and they have to be specially compensated for tha...

Audacity has a small number of different types of files it knows about but they're all sound files, not video. Audacity 1.3 is better at this with more different types, but still audio only. If you have a simple editor or converter program, you can make a WAV file from the movie and then try the cle...

I have a USB microphone with a USB socket on the bottom. Could the socket have become damaged? <<<Rock Band microphone>>> This is the $11 microphone, right? Even actual rock concerts have people who take care of the microphones and repair or replace ones that fail (or are crushed by the band). Micro...

<<<Audacity makes the maximum amplitude 1dB - more than that, I do not know.>>> I hope not. Undistorted audio goes from 0 dBFS and down. Not up. All negative numbers. Default Normalize and Amplify are both 0, not -1dB. You can change the value to anything including +1 by clicking on "Distortion...

<<<use two mikes >>>

Tell us how everything is connected. If you only have one microphone and you're trying to talk over a rock-crusher guitar amplifier, that's never going to work very well.

Koz

They did that crazy Music CD format thing to save space. The equivalent pile of WAV files would be larger with all their file header and footer information. That's why you need a Music CD Authoring program to create a CD and a Ripper to get the music back off. The quality doesn't change. It's always...

Tracks > Mix and Render.

Koz

Just to cover the bases: Audacity does not save sound files. Audacity will Save a Project which consists (in it's smallest form) an .AUP file and a _data folder. You can Export a WAV file which will open up in Windows Media and allow you to burn a Music CD. Make sure you call the file a name that ha...

Since you can't do that, you should probably tell us what you're really trying to do.

Audacity tracks can be normalized and amplified (cousin tools) to any number. You can easily have a natural track that looks like it's been normalized but hasn't. So there's no goal to code for.

Koz

Two quick notes. Audacity is a complete slave to whatever the computer does, so if the computer can't find your sound device, Audacity has no chance.

Audacity has an unfortunate default of 44100, 32-bit floating and Stereo. Change the preferences to 44100, 16-bit Stereo and restart Audacity.

Koz