Audacity Forum

It's possible you have MP3 compression damage. All MP3 causes some sound damage and if you edit an MP3 in Audacity, the damage always gets worse.

Is this the kind of sound you have?

http://www.kozco.com/tech/WAV-MP3.wav

Koz

<<<just make it less harsh>>> Also right. Which is why it can "hide" peak distortions, cracking, or crunching every ten minutes or so, but is increasingly helpless in the face of more and more distortion and damage. We still people they can't recover from overload distortion because by the...

That usually means the software left trash behind in the Dreaded Windows Registry. The Registry is pointing to software and drivers that no longer exist. Most software developers go to a lot of trouble to get the installers to work right. If they still have a little time left, they work on the unins...

Audacity has an annoying habit of changing the project specifications depending on the specifications of the first imported music file. Depth/Rate Conversion -- Change Project Rate (Hz) lower left > 48000 -- Track Name > Set Sample Format > 16-bit PCM -- File > Export > Format > Other uncompressed F...

Neither. Live captures should always be Exported As WAV and pushed off to an archive disk or some other backup system. That's the Master, uncompressed, perfect, undamaged digital version of the music. From there, you can go "downhill" and compress to a format that causes damage (almost all...

I sense a thread war. What form do you save your digital music in? Gone are the days of going out to the garage to get the vinyl records you left out there fifteen years ago to listen to them on the recently refurbished turntable -- even if it is one of those dreadful USB things. I still have record...

Audacty will not work into a full or badly fragmented hard drive. How much room do you have and have you ever defragmented?

Defrag
-- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining) > Tools > Error Checking & Defragmentation

Koz

Right. But if you have enough clipping, you don't have music any more, you have "Suite for Cubic Spline Interpolation and Variations." You can ride over distortions here and there with that -- it takes the crunchy out of the overload, but more than occasionally, you're listening to the too...

<<<Is there an easy way to have these intervals automatically extracted for me? >>> How automatic did you want that? Silent Sense or Music Sense is traditionally hard to adjust, particularly since a controlled, quiet room is completely beyond most people. The room will always have background sound, ...

http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-Control-UCA202-Audio-Interface/dp/B000J0IIEQ <<<to the blue line in on the back of the pc.>>> Excellent. <<<Since I removed the Plusdeck 2c>>> <<<I removed the sound card that came with it as it wasn't hooked to anything anymore.>>> Not so excellent. Did you also remo...