Audacity Forum

<<<I've tried Soundflower a number of times and I'm still getting the same problem with sound. >>> I didn't like SoundFlower because it was difficult to use. We need to wait for BillW to get the specifics. I think you need to reassign the recording devices in Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > ...

<<<When I open Preferences >>> Whose preferences? Audacity or Windows? Audacity 1.2 has only shaky support under Windows Vista and Windows 7 (And Leopard, and Snow Leopard....etc) You should only be using Audacity 1.3. I would remove all the Audacity programs from your machine and reinstall a fresh ...

<<<but are about to go to the current Beta.>>>

Don't go to 1.3.10. 1.3.10 has great difficulty with Export Multiple. Known Problem.

Koz

An hour show would be 650MB, not 650KB. Is that a typo? Audacity converts shows to its own internal format for editing and then depends on you Exporting As WAV or whatever your final product is. At the same time, Audacity is a terrible converter program, so it's the best of both worlds. I do almost ...

Sound will not become louder than "1" (100%) or 0dB on the other scale. Digital audio is measured from maximum of 0 and down. There are no positive numbers. Standard broadcast test tone in Europe is -18. In the US, it's -20. You can force sound to get louder than that, but you will cause d...

<<<but when i come to lay down a second track, it all falls apart.>>> That's normal so far. <<<it's recoding everything>>> That's because your computer is not recording your performance or microphone. It's recording "Mix-Out" or "What U Hear." In English that setting records ever...

Another possibility is a corrupted preferences file.

Go > Home > Library > Application Support > Trash the audacity folder and restart Audacity.

Audacity needs to ask you a language when it wakes up.

Koz

Using Nightly Builds is dangerous because improvements aren't linear and some changes break each other. Since you're not doing rocket surgery... Back up to 1.3.10 from the main download page... http://audacityteam.org/download/ Or back up even further. I use 1.3.7 for everything. Audacity 1.3.7 -- M...

Maybe nothing.

Go > Utilities> Disk Utility > System Drive (whatever you called it) > Verify Disk and Repair Permissions.

Koz

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Koz