Audacity Forum

Assuming a healthy WAV file, Right-click on it > Open With > Windows Media.

Koz

If you like to record or capture internet radio shows, you might have Windows Mix-Out or What-U-Hear selected to do this. You need to turn that off if you're going to overdub or perform sound-on-sound.

Koz

I think Total Recorder for Windows can do this, too.

Koz

There is no easy, high quality, cheap way of getting a standard copper line telephone into a recording. However, you can use the Pamela Professional or Business software package with Skype to do this job very well. Both of those packages will put your voice on one track and the talent's voice on ano...

What's "it?" What are you recording?

Koz

CD Text on the disk will produce a non-standard music disk. Music players may either ignore the additional information or in extreme cases, may not play. Some people have reported that a very good transfer of a vinyl record is enough to key the on-line database into supplying the correct album and m...

We tell people that Software Playthrough is the worst of the bunch for reasons you are experiencing. Hardware Playthrough is much better with much shorter echos, but not all machines support it. Much better is not get the monitor audio from the computer at all. Plug the headphones into the mixer or ...

Do you do a lot of production on your machine? Do you know how full the hard drive is and/or how big it is? Hard drives become fragmented if they're used a lot. Programs leave little shards, fragments, and pieces lying around. Audacity will not work into a fragmented hard drive and very few programs...

One other note. Don't post MP3 files for this kind of work. MP3 creates sound damage so we are dealing with your damage plus the MP3 damage.

WAV is good.

Koz

It does rather come down to how important this is in dollars. You or someone can always go through the tape second by second and suppress the odd noises manually and then process the rest to brighten it up a bit and get rid of the hiss, but this isn't a "I'm New To Audacity" kind of job an...