Audacity Forum

You know most of the elves on the forum would rather open a vein with a rusty knife than do what you're doing, right? 78 records take a special needle to avoid noise and distortion, phono cartridges act funny at other than the speeds they were designed to use, and you're right, very special consider...

Windows, right? You may be fighting the Mix-Out problem. When you record from the internet, you need to activate Mix-Out to properly manage the sound pathways. This is exactly what you don't want to do if your intent is to record a real local microphone with you singing or playing. If you perform in...

<<<Recording 1: I ran a cable from the aux-out of a sound board to the mic-in of my Windows XP laptop.>>> Remember that? You can't do that. Laptop Mic-In connections are mono and the computer usually splits the signal up so it appears both left and right in the show. But it starts out one signal and...

The old Audacity Export was fine and simple until you want to change something. Then it was a full safari into the Preferences system. The new Audacity puts the options for each Export right at the export step. The one thing that happened a little wacky was the MetaData Entry Panel also pops up in t...

Audacity Projects are not sound files. If you used a sound file in your production, then Audacity will keep going back to that sound file forever to play the show. A very typical problem happens when people don't realize the original sound file is still part of the show and they decide to move it, c...

Sudden Computer Insanity in the middle of a large, complicated project could mean you're running out of hard drive space. This will take you down to the drive to inspect it, and you should probably error check and defragment while you're in there. Audacity will not work into a highly fragmented driv...

<<<if there is a "Documentation" link, >>> Everybody takes me at my literal word. You'd think I would eventually learn. By "Documentation," I mean the instruction books for these two active products. Period. Full Stop. Do not try to blow this out to Every English Word That's Ever...

But if you play something you didn't record , it sounds OK? http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2.wav Does that play OK? It's six seconds long. Windows machines have this convoluted sound system that allows you to do strange and wondrous things and that's fine until you get lost. You are almost certainly...

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I thought so.

Koz

If you love recording from the Internet, then you probably changed the Windows Control Panels to record from "Mix-Out." You can't record Mix-Out and a local microphone at the same time -- at least not well. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Is...