Audacity Forum

Skype does Not Play Well With Others. Skype got its reputation of nearly always working by viciously ripping sound services away from everything else and only sometimes giving them back when it's done. This is a major problem when producers want to create a podcast and include live Skype performance...

The first place I'd look is in the Apple Preferences. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Output. Make sure the output sound is routed to the Built-In Speakers. That should give you your iTunes, QuickTime, etc, back. You can cause significant drama if you like to use Skype, SoundFlower, ...

Does the adapter look like this...?

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/UnbalBalAdapter.jpg

If the 3.5mm plug has one more tiny metal ring than that, then it's not a proper adapter. Neither of these would work...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnecto ... ctors.html

Koz

You understand that if you purchased music from the Apple iTunes Store in the past, it's protected and you can't export and edit it. The latest iTunes software will allow you to purchase non-protected music, but if you have older music, it still has FairPlay copy protection. The conventional way to ...

Totally, but a note here. AAC is, or can be a serious compressor. One of the ways of getting a million songs on your iPod is to sacrifice a bit with "High Quality" instead of "iTunes Plus" in the preferences. If you do that you can occasionally hear an error here and there as the...

In Audacity 1.3, that process is called "Chains." It's pre-beginning, baby steps in development, so chances are, whatever you want it to do, it doesn't.

Bottom of this page...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/EffectsTips

Koz

This happens if you like to record Internet shows and forget to turn off Mix-Out. With Mix-Out running, Audacity will record the show you're trying to produce plus everything the computer is doing at that minute. This can either produce echoes or double the volume you're expecting, or tracks in the ...

Stereo Mix is a little messy to make work. You could be recording multiple pathways at once. Say you want to record a YouTube segment, but you leave your microphone on at the same time. It's easy to do. Audacity will record the internet sound and also your speakers as picked up by your microphone --...

We use those for theatrical presentations, live training sessions, and videoconferences. It's not a crappy microphone unless the battery is weak, and those go for six months. You pull the wind screen and tie clip off and you're left with an 1/8" microphone capsule and thin lead wire. The second...

Another thought. You guarantee absolutely that you are plugging the microphone into the pink Mic-In connector, right, and not Line-In? Everybody tries to smoosh those two together and they're not at all the same. Some sound cards leak and you can be listening to the Line-In and hear the microphone w...