Audacity Forum

That works, or I use the pre-packaged Noise Removal Tool inside "Normalize." Don't let Normalize do anything else -- just Remove DC. If your computer or sound card is broken (I have one that is) you will need to do this DC removal to every captured track before you edit. You can't remove D...

Sudden Computer Insanity can be caused by filling up your hard drive.

From memory now, I think it's Start > My Computer > Right Click C: > Properties. You should never have more than 90% of the hard drive filled up and some computers start to slow down at 50%.

Koz

<<<"MPEG-1, Layer 3.">>> Also known as "MP3" yes. Every time you clarify this is gets foggier. First a note: Apple ACC does a better job of audio compression than the million year old MP3 technology. So if you're after the most number of high quality songs on your iPod, AAC is th...

<<<Or the trumpet player stepping back and forth, or the pedals being depressed on the piano or ...>>> No, it actually has to shake the floor. The foot "performance" noise isn't any worse than a microphone in the audience. I've never seen one, but apparently stage performances use these a ...

<<< Can i just plug a mic into the microphone jack on my laptop?>>> You can just plug a computer microphone in there. Computer microphones are powered from the computer and use a special connection very different from conventional microphones. Second illustration.... http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioc...

Darn good question. I don't know of anything inside Audacity that can do that. But as we are fond of saying, Audacity is a complete slave to the machine running it. Windows machines are business computers. Many of them naturally assume you're going to be making Skype calls back to the home office, s...

Bingo. Leopard/Intel machines do not support Audacity 1.2. Trash everything Audacity from /Applications folder and dig for the Preferences file. Go > Home > Library > Applications Support > Take out the whole Audacity folder. My favorite 1.3 version is 1.3.7. It seems to be stable for me over many d...

Mac Mini 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB memory Mac OS-X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard Clean install. No other applications except Audacity. Audacity 1.3.10 Oct 17 2009 Lame installed. The s key gives me "Spectrograms." The i key gives me Interface." And nobody will reveal that you posted a request...

<<<a great, easy-to-use program for basic editing of music files.>>> Not quite. it's a great, easy-to-use program for basic editing of your music files. Files you made by performing a musical instrument. Not copyrighted music files you bought from the iTunes Store. The traditional way to remove Fair...

Does the valuable work play? Can you borrow a Mac? Jack your Headphone Out to his/hers Line-In and re-record the work on the Mac. Quicktime Pro will do this ($25) or download the Mac Audacity. Sorry, this doesn't work with another laptop PC. It might work with a large Deskside PC. They have Line-In ...