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ACX Macro I would probably stop calling it that. Making a Macro out of the three mastering tools has problems because Effect > Filter Curve does not always call the right curve when you use it in a Macro. If you used Effect > Filter Curve in production between audiobook readings, you may or may not...

Since Audacity recognizes MP3 files out of the box, what you have probably isn't an MP3.

You can install the FFMpeg software and Audacity will open more different sound files.

Scroll down to optional downloads.

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

Koz

What did you call one of the projects? The exact filename? This has happened before? How do files get to your backup drive and where is it? Cloud? G-Drive? Losing a whole pile of .AUP files is most unusual. That's where I start worrying you're not the only user on your machine. Is your virus protect...

If everybody is on Skype, they offer a recording service, but we had a poster who tried that and the voice was pretty dreadful. Noise cancellation and other artifacts and distortion. We also had a poster who did a perfect podcast with Skype and Audacity. That's it. Just those two. Nobody else on ear...

There is another way to do this. It's still two computers, but you also need a sound mixer. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PodCast_Studio_WS-600.jpg Audacity is recording on the left and Full-On Skype connection on the right. The machine on the right has no idea the rest of that is happenin...

Cleanly recording a Skype or other Chat conference is crazy difficult to do. Counting Audacity, you have three different software packages struggling to control your computer sound pathways. Skype, as a general rule, is going to win. Skype has to do direction management, echo cancellation, and noise...

Isn't Realtek High Definition the microphone in your laptop?

Do the scratch test.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/cli ... hTest2.mp3

Koz

Open the .AUP file in a text editor (Notepad??) and read it (Do Not save anything). Does it look anything like this with semi-English words and odd sentences? https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/aupFileGraphic-redbox.jpg Does it have nonsence characters, graphic characters or is the .AUP file bl...

Any way to correct?

Depending on how you asked that, no, you can't fix that kind of distortion with filters or effects.

Koz

That first file is your raw reading, right? I would keep all three, but the throw-away is the MP3. You can't edit it or change it without causing sound damage. You can make a new MP3 from the Edit Master and you can make a new Edit Master from the raw reading. No question keep the first two. I still...