Audacity Forum

Either press Pause instead of stop, or stop using Audacity 1.2.

Audacity 1.3 has provision for one-line editing.

Koz

The last generation of VHS videotapes had VHS-HiFi in addition to the traditional analog, edge-of-the-tape sound tracks. VHS HiFi was a pretty good deal. It was a full-on FM processed stereo track burned inside the picture. For a while, it was the only way to record top quality stereo audio that did...

Importing the audio is the default, now, right? So we don't have to constantly answer the same question again and again and again.....

Koz

<<<Perhaps that fix should be a default >>> Don't start that. I don't think Audacity should ever have DC in it at all since battery voltage is not and never has been "sound." The developers want to take whatever is there because filtering it out takes time -- sometimes lots of time. I capt...

Where do the sound files go when you tell Audacity to copy them into itself?

Koz

The forum put together a review/comment section for External Sound Cards.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz

Export music files to your desktop, use them, and then move them to wherever you eventually want them. The magic of "Export" is that you get stand-alone sound files and you can safely move them anywhere, anytime.

Koz

<<<On all Macintosh equipment the line-in port was unsuitably quiet using a variety of powered and non-powered microphones. >>> Doesn't surprise me. Macs do not have a Microphone Input, and nobody will give the built-in microphone any awards. <<<On all Macintosh equipment the USB port was unsuitably...

Audacity keeps its operating preferences in the Windows Registry -- or at least it did until you "cleaned" it. This should let you completely remove the Audacity portion of the Registry http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Audacity_Preferences#Resetting_Preferences_to_defaults You'...

You are almost certainly recording the PowerBook built-in microphone instead of the message recorder connection. The PB Line-In connection looks like a circle with two black arrows. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Switch to Line-In. There is a little sound meter there and it c...