Audacity Forum

I always thought these things has a certain auto volume control, but this one didn't. The overload is permanent. There are tools to help overload and clipping, but not when a third of the performance is distortion. The tools will just give you different distortion. Audacity 1.3 has an effect called ...

M-Audio equipment uses ASIO sound drivers. Audacity doesn't support ASIO. I assume you're in Windows? See if the equipment has Windows drivers and use them.

Koz

Fluffy idea. You can get unstable MP3 exports if you use Audacity's default production value of 32-Floating instead of the more conventional 16-bit. Audacity > Preferences > Quality > Default Sample Format. Open up one of the MP3 files that fail in QuickTime instead of iTunes and press Apple-I for t...

You can sometimes get more information on where the problem is if you cause a little intentional damage and then see what happens. You need one piece of hardware... http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CMR203 Plug that into the Line-In of the Mac -- tiny circle with two black arrows. Plug it in fi...

I got it. I dug down to my Audacity 1.2.5, and what do you know, the cursor leaps about the timeline instead of smoothly progressing. Upgrading is more interesting than you think. I use 1.3.7 for everything. It has some minor oddities, but all in all, it's well behaved. Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac http://...

<<<It sounds like the .aup's are pretty safe although it does sound like it would be good to back them up onto a CD or DVD anyhow so just in case anything would happen in an upconversion to a 1.3.x I'd still have a good copy to fall back on.>>> Did anybody else notice that BW is planning on backing ...

<<<I've deleted 15 imported tracks, but I have only one left and it is full of music.>>> You can also get that if you try to use illegal characters in your filename. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscore and dash are the only universally legal characters. No dates unless you write them 2...

You can put Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine safely as long as you only use one at a time. Still, my Mini is almost exactly your machine down to the Tiger version. I do multiple hours of production each week on this machine. I used to ...... Wait. I'm just waking up here. Are you using Audacity ...

No, no, no. You got a lot more problems than just Audacity. Audacity is the coal mine canary. If you try to use a marginal computer with Audacity, it will turn into a pile of mud in a hurry. There might be another problem. Apple > About This Mac > Processor and Version. Read me those two items. My M...

Or if you need a little fancier...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... mputer#Mac

Koz