Audacity Forum

Welcome to Latency Delay! Any time a computer has to stop and think about the sound, it comes out late. Computers not designed for this can produce delays of a quarter second or more. Audacity 1.3 has provisions to "tune out" the delays so you don't notice them. With Audacity 1.2, you're s...

Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Make sure the USB headset or USB Device is selected there instead of the Internal Microphone which it sounds like you have. Make sure the blue sound meter kicks when you talk.

Koz

If everything is turned up and you still have low level, you may like applying Chris's Compressor. That's what I use to easily make internet productions louder without serious distortion or damage.

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Koz

You need to have "Mix Out" or "What U Hear" selected in the Windows control panels selected in order to record internet audio. Do those controls have adjustments and are they turned up? http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer You could...

Lots of blame to go around. -- You shouldn't pull USB connections without "putting them away." -- Windows goes into device management and crash recovery immediately if it loses a "live" USB connection so as not to cause further damage. -- Audacity does not have infinite recovery,...

Your machine may have crashed at the export step. How did you stop the capture session? You got to the end of the interview and said thank you and then what buttons did you hit? If you didn't press stop, you can send Audacity into Never-Never land. There are automated tools for recovering a crashed ...

<<<I am an archivist>>> Also it's good to keep in mind that home-burned CDs and DVDs of all sorts use dye layers that have a lot of the same characteristics -- and lifespan -- as color photographs. They're not laser-punched sputtered aluminum like commercial CDs. Don't leave one on the back window o...

<<<I am an archivist and am trying to archive sound on CDs that will play in any CD player.>>> You're missing a couple of steps to make a Music CD. Control-Click the exported WAV file > Open With > iTunes Make a new empty iTunes playlist and drag the new iTunes submission into it. Burn Playlist to C...

You have too many cables connected. Is it a USB turntable? Disconnect the RCA cables and leave the USB. Make sure everything is turned on. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Select the turntable or the USB device. The blue lights on the sound meter should flash when you play a re...

<<<I had an instance of Audacity...>>>

Exactly which Audacity was that?

Koz