Audacity Forum

If you capture some work on your Windows 7 machine and export a WAV file, does that file play funny on your Windows XP machine?

Koz

It gets worse. The "people can't tell" thing has more to do with cultural acclimation than voice accuracy. There was a survey a while back where a bunch of college kids were asked whether they preferred crazy high quality, uncompressed, prefect in every possible way music or compressed MP3...

<<<Here's the basic experiment i am trying to replicate, if anyone is interested (it's a really cool phenomenon):>>> It's a really cool phenomenon that happens in every two-way radio I've ever heard. Narrow-band, 2-way, FM communications radios (cops, fire, etc) don't have the bandwidth and accuracy...

It may be crazier than that. Most WIndows laptops are business machines and are set up for VIOP, Skype, or other telephone communications service. That's what gives you the Automatic Echo Cancellation, Auto Level Set and all the rest of those tool, and yes, that screws up theatrical production somet...

I was going to go with permissions, but I like your idea better.

Koz

There are two ways to capture sound that gives Audacity troubles. The fastest is use the download of Super or Switch to convert the work to something Audacity can handle -- generally WAV. Or you can play the work and record it real time in Audacity. You can do that with a program like Total Recorder...

I'm going with no on most of that. Or yes given that you want to choose the points manually and spend the rest of your life flipping them over one by one. I don't know of any way to select a portion of a performance and randomly select points. Same with the noise. You can put noise wherever you want...

This is what's so darn much fun about this problem. The sample I got sounds like vicious, terrible electrical interference, bad audio shield or a show recorded next to a heavily loaded electric motor. Not white noise at all and certainly reducing the content of the show to garbage.

Koz

<<<I copy it to an audio CD.>>> Too many fuzzy words. You cannot "copy" a music file to a Music CD. Music on a Music CD is in a special format and you must use a CD Authoring Program like Windows Media, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM, or Toast. If you straight copy a file to a CD and it...

You're not expecting to make a Music CD like that, right? Data CD is OK for files and notes and spreadsheets. The acceptance of CD-R for music is not quite 100%. There are still some music players out there which will not play a home-burned CD-R. CD dash Anything Else would give you a terrible inter...