Audacity Forum

At the bottom of the Audacity work windows there's a clicky called Snap To. Turn that off. Audacity 1.2 and Windows is an interesting combination. You don't reinstall Audacity by resintalling Audacity, you do it by trashing the Audacity Configuration file and Audacity starts over. Except in 1.2/Wind...

You're capturing vinyl on a new USB turntable? Those show up here a lot. They're throw-away turntables and sometimes you have to throw them away a little too early.

Describe the system and how it's connected.

Koz

<<<Even if the stream remains unrecorded we'd still all know what sample we're talking about and I could log the samples played on my end.>>> Is this the Doris Day/Rock Hudson movie where we're using the same words but talking about two different things? You're talking about music collaboration, are...

The sizes of the meters will change with the Audacity version, but this is more or less what a normal recording Audacity is supposed to look like...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg

It may not go all the way up. That's too loud and will create a seriously damaged show.

Koz

<<<If you right click on the file and select "properties > Advanced", Windows should tell you the file format, the number of channels and the bit rate.>>> You totally can't go by the Windows icons or other information. Windows wants everything to be Windows Media and sometimes tries to for...

<<<I've got windows xp and have loads of extra space on my pc and have no extra programs running >>> You may just not have enough computer there to perform the work. Describe the machine. Dual Intel 2.3Gz, etc. etc. Make it sound like the ad to buy the computer. Amount of Memory? You can get problem...

You can continue to use Audacity to capture the work, just stop Saving Projects.

Koz

There it is. Aggregate Microphone!

http://thedudesays.blogspot.com/2007/01 ... cs-in.html

Oops. Wrong platform. Sorry.

Koz

That's not entirely true any more. I can't find it now that I want it, but the latest services have something called... maybe "composite microphone?" "Conjoined Microphone," something like that. It allows you to plug in two microphones into different USB ports and they will arriv...

I so would not be using Audacity Projects for this. Open up your Projects one at a time (if you still can) and Export As WAV. This should give you a much more consistent filesize from record to record and as a bonus, it gives you standard, common WAV sound files that you can copy to backup media. Yo...