Audacity Forum

<<<It tells me the "volume needs to be repaired" - but unfortunately then says that the "underlying task failed" and does not give me the option of repairing.>>> I would be copying everything in my /Users folder over to a FireWire external drive or a USB Thumb drive if you have o...

<<<That's fine, as long as you've got the space to store all of that forever. >>> Which is a production decision, not an engineering one. One of the interesting design traits of the "Word Star" word processing program popular during the reign of Henry IV was they went to extraordinary leng...

<<<length of the cord I’m using might be the cause of the noise>>> Not directly. It's the distance. Broadcast and Commercial Sound people have techniques to send sound hundreds of feet over balanced, shielded cables without damage. Home systems rarely make it much over six feet without problems. I b...

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Koz

You hit the gold standard for difficulty. Windows Audacity 1.2 keeps its preferences in the Dreaded Windows Registry. The only graceful way to "reset" this Audacity is to de-install it completely in the control panel and reinstall it. If the New Audacity does not ask you "English?&quo...

<<<I would not willingly subject my audio to this effect.>>> I don't know anybody who claimed any compressor was distortion free. Even Chris creates enormous distortions of the original given that the show becomes as much as 20dB louder with dramatic phrase-to-phrase variations. It's just how you me...

This is the kind of thing that drives producers nuts. "Projects let you save your show, power cycle the computer, and pick up right where you were.... ... ... ... ..except..." Not to worry. That can be fixed, too. Save Project As... [TuesdayAfternoonShow] [Enter] Save UNDO data... Yes[X] ....

<<<The hard drive that I'm using still has 40 gigabytes left free.>>>
Out of a total of what and is it an internal drive?

Koz

You aren't in Audacity 1.3, are you? I just equalized a short music segment to -60dB.

Where did you get the music from? Pull down this music clip and see if that works. Open it up on a fresh Audacity.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2.wav

Koz

<<<Basically it will be set out to sound like a pre-recorded radio show.>>> ...but you're going to do it live? That's a lot harder than you think. The hitches come when you want to Skype as part of the show. That's extraordinarily hard to do as the common software packages all work off-line. Not liv...