Audacity Forum

<<<i have an older macbook (2006, OS X 10.4) and i have the audacity 1.2 version.>>>

Need more detail. Apple > About This Mac and read us what it says after Processor. Audacity one-point-two-point what? That last number makes a big difference.

Koz

On a Mac, this can be the wrong Audacity. If you're on a new Mac; Intel, Leopard (10.5) or above, you should be on Audacity 1.3. I like 1.3.7. The new machines do not support Audacity 1.2. Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-macosx-ub-1.3.7.zip If you have an Intel ma...

If you caught that little dance, there, Somebody posted trying to advertise their video converter -- on an audio forum... Anyway, you can use the "lame" plugin to create nice MP3 exports of your work. http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3 I would recommend moving over t...

You know your Mac already speaks S/PDIF, right? ========================== -- Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack) -- Combined optical digital audio output/audio line out (minijack) ========================== http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=270640 Audacity has a...

You can start with DAT file specifications. 48000, 16-bit, Stereo.

Koz

You should be in Audacity 1.3 if you're not already. Track > Stereo To Mono. If you can live with a mono, mixed track, you're done. If a stereo track is required, then... Track > Stereo To Mono Edit > Duplicate Track Tools (on the left) > Make Stereo Track. Most people want the split because it allo...

Error Opening Sound Device is really common. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13044&p=50109&hilit=error+opening+sound+device#p50109 http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12949&start=0&hilit=error+opening+sound+device http://forum.audacityteam.or...

Export, Export, Export. Export is the only way to get a sound file. Audacity will not Save a sound file. File > Export As WAV File > Export as MP3 In the case of the show with multiple layers and hundreds of individual performances mixed, Save Project, and then Export As WAV. The WAV sound file shou...

The files go left, right, left, right. That kills most raw file managers. One of the Audacities didn't number them sequentially, either. This happened enough that one of the developers wrote very good rescue tools. Crash Recovery http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery We do warn ...

The holy grail is to have the sound performance smash up against maximum volume and sit there through the whole show. Live performances don't act like that. The graceful tools are Amplify and Normalize. Run Amplify on your production and use a peak value of zero if it's not there already. That's the...