Audacity Forum

<<<I'm pretty sure it just uses the ordinary CD-encryption technology.>>> Music CD aren't encrypted. The music is a cousin of plain WAV format but stripped down to be as small as possible to get as much music on the platter as they could. They use a smaller than normal file header, etc. And no song ...

Duelling Postings.

Is your drive full? Did you try to save a Project with illegal characters in the filename? Upper and lower case letters, dash and underscore. No other characters.

Koz

<<<I will state what happened. I was working on a progect and I tried to save it and it didn't save. It silenced my whole project.>>> Lots more detail. We need to build your machines in mid-air and see where there could be possibilities for problems. Windows XP laptop? Which version of Audacity exac...

Can we infer you're a woman? I'm sure somebody will come in after me and tell you something to magic to click on, but I'm going with a very seriously broken sound card. Has it ever worked? Windows used to have a simple program called Windows Sound Recorder. Try capturing your voice with that as a te...

<<<so I can place some audio in the negative time of a track, e.g. a "hidden track" before track 01 of a CD>>> I don't know that a standard Music CD has any provision for that. Not that you can't do it, but some older Music CD players pay throw up and not play the disk. There is a newer te...

<<<I have been looking all OVER for the setting to change the 128K to 192K. >>> Change what to 192K? MP3 export? That's in the export panel during the creation of the file where it probably should have been along along. <<<I think i am gonna go back to the latest stable version.>>> OK. Koz

If you've been reading long enough, you know that certain Operating System and computer combinations won't do that. Macs won't do that out of the box without a lot of help, for example. What-U-Hear or Mix-Out are a combined ballet between the OS and the sound card drivers. One of the common failures...

<<<8) In the "Recording" section of the dialog, click on the "Device" popup menu - you should be able to select your USB adapter by name.>>> Exactly correct, but sometimes Audacity will not give you any more information than "Default Device," and that will magically sta...

Audacity will try to blow that file out to about a 15GB show internally. For production, you would double that plus the need to keep at least 10% of your drive free at all times.

How much room have you got?

Koz

Long term security recording equipment -- and that's what you're talking about here -- uses custom programming for a reason. Regular computers get unstable as the show sizes go up. There was a note here that 12 hours was the longest anyone had ever been able to manage a recording -- and that was wit...