Audacity Forum

You can rely on getting terrible recordings in auditoriums and rock concerts unless you know the sound person and she personally gives you a feed from the sound support mixing desk. You can occasionally capture a lecture if you happen to be standing in front of one of the speakers and it's not too l...

Audacity is something of a coal mine canary. It fails when your computer is sick. Since you seem to have a good touchy-feely relationship with your RAM, can I assume you bought and installed it yourself? Did you get a good deal? Can you send it back if you find a dead stick? http://oca.microsoft.com...

It means you don't have Windows set to show you file extensions. If you did, you'd know that your music.wav file was really music.wma -- a Windows Media highly compressed audio file -- that Audacity doesn't know how to open. You need to convert the file in Some Other Program before Audacity will edi...

It is, isn't it? As a large, fuzzy rule, you can't take apart songs -- in any program I know of. You might try the vocal isolation tools. Voice Removal or Isolation --Center Pan Remover (Voice Remover--Search the page for "Center Pan Remover") http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugin...

The little files in the _data folder aren't strictly QuickTime files. They're little audio snippets in the form that Audacity uses to store Project content. Having the Project manager become damaged isn't all that unusual, but the way you damaged it is. First things first. Audacity people wrote tool...

There is one place where you can set actual numbers. If you prepare for streaming, some encoders allow you to set a ceiling Not To Exceed value. Streaming services have to Play Nice With Others.

Koz

<<<it's irregular that I'd delete a project file>>> You keep using the wrong words and that's dangerous. Audacity Projects can easily be thousands of files. You do not save a show as an "aup file." You Save a Project and that creates an AUP file as a way to keep track of the thousands of o...

This is the compulsive version. Capture the live performance into Audacity. Export As WAV and name it with the show and date following the universal naming convention. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscore, and dash only. No other characters. I don't uses spaces, either. ScoobyDo-Sc3a_20...

Audacity is not a terrifically good converter. You pretty much need to arrive in WAV format for all these tools to work right. DV Audio format is 48000, 16-bit, Stereo and if you can strip it out of the mixed file, it should fall right into Audacity. All my sound test files on the web site are in th...

<<<So now we only have one channel recorded. We'd like to just duplicate everything from the existing channel onto the empty channel>>>

Tools On The Left (under the arrow) Split Stereo Track. Copy and Paste. Make Stereo Track.

Koz