Audacity Forum

Wait, this is too weird.

Record a sample sound file and export it as Microsoft WAV 16-bit, etc. etc. Unplug the microphone and close Audacity.

Does Windows Media or QuickTime Player play anything else other than that file right this second?

Koz

How are you trying to open your music file with all these programs? Right-Click > Open With...? Drag the file into the program? QuickTime > File > Open?

Koz

Two problems. The microphone is a USB mic, right? Unlike an analog microphone, USB microphones can change the computer slightly when you plug and unplug them, so it doesn't shock me that other services than just the mic change. Sometimes, the computer assumes that both the microphone and the speaker...

I need to think about that for a second. When the elves do this, we have to build your system in our heads and then see how it acts. It's very right-brain/left-brain.

Koz

Can you chain that?

Koz

If you saved anything, you saved an Audacity Project. It's not a sound file. To get a sound file, you should open up your project (click on the AUP file) and Export As WAV or Export As MP3 -- although that's a little more complicated. Don't move or do anything to the _data folder, the AUP file or an...

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I won't either because I don't use JavaScript.

Is this enough thread wander yet?

Koz

Or don't record the show. I noticed you didn't use the word "Audacity" once in your post.

Koz

<<<is a mono line in.>>> Actually, it's probably worse than that. Most Windows Laptops have a mono microphone in which is easily overloaded and can damage equipment connected to it. So yes, in that case, any Stereo Line-In USB adapter will probably work. You might create some interesting problems if...

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How about that says:

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I know the on-line documents are up there..... somewhere.

Koz