Audacity Forum

...and all we would need to do is write checks to Microsoft. Windows Media is a proprietary format. Although Windows Media does support lossless, I doubt you can get to it with conventional tools. I think they published it just to say they could do it. Most people want the whole "The Barber of ...

If your computer can handle it, you can record "live" from the internet, but it's not a format conversion. You're just "borrowing" the audio from the sound card and capturing it in Audacity. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer Not ...

<<<although the noise reduction came up with some wonderful Martian sound-effects.>>> Most of the time the noise reduction in 1.2 does that. That's why it's less than useful. The tools in 1.3 can do that if you get a bad profile, the profile doesn't match the interference, or you're too aggressive w...

So you're doing this on your laptop?

Koz

<<<buying a new soundcard?>>>

What was your old computer and sound card?

Koz

<<<what's going on, what can cause this?>>> Cheap sound cards use different electronics for record and playback. Most people don't notice that their hour recording didn't come out exactly one hour when they played it back, but the first time you try to do sound sync, the issue comes up almost immedi...

I couldn't get the on-line information to tell me anything about the laptop, but most laptops don't have High-Level, Stereo, Line-In connections. They have Microphone-In which is way more sensitive and easy to create overload damage. It's also mono. Are you sure you have both a pink and a blue conne...

Will a straight DVD with MP3s on it play in your car? Most car players won't touch DVDs of any kind. DVD players, at least the later ones, will play anything, so getting one of your shows to play on one of those players doesn't tell you anything. They will play floor sweepings. Generally, portable C...

I thought that was a miss print for SM-78. There really is an SM-7B, isn't there? Stand-alone non-adjustable USB devices have some serious problems. Oddly, sound quality isn't usually one of them. Most do well in the quality depertment given they're used as designed. There are no controls and we kno...

<<<If you find a laptop with better than mediocre sound, again, let us know>>>

Ummmm.. Raising his Mac hand.

Koz