Audacity Forum

<<<3. I managed to hide my meter bars and can't figure out how to restore them. >>>

View or Window > Turn Meter Bar On.

Koz

Do you have a way to make some of the bubbly WAV work available to download? We'd just as soon not have the MP3 version.

Koz

Wait. Your WAV files sound bubbly?

What's the show and what's the original material? Audacity default settings are 32-bit floating, 44100, Stereo. Are the preferences still set to that?

Koz

Assuming you're starting with the maximum possible quality, uncompressed, clear, sparkling Stereo WAV sound files, the thing that affects MP3 export quality the most is the output bitrate. Most people can't hear sound errors on a stereo show with an MP3 bitrate over 200. The sound quality starts to ...

The track I heard sounded fine up until it became obvious the vocal was drifting out of sync. If you were compulsive, you could go in to the spaces between words and add or take away "air" until everything matches. You win one big battle right away. You have separate tracks. Most people po...

It's worse than that. If you open up anything that uses sound services, you could get instability. Search the forum for problems with "Skype."

Koz

Missed one. You're supposed to be using a CD-R if the task is to produce a Music Compact Disk. That's the combination that will play in CD players in cars all over the world. That has a special WAV format called CDA that's not directly compatible with anything else. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-CD-R-M...

<<<I know you are considering a Tree'd menu. >>> Or, maybe not. I think it was Audacity 1.3.6 that had a highly tree'd menu and it was the biggest pain in the neck. Noise Reduction is a very try and change settings and try again type of tool and it was three layers down in the tree. Everybody univer...

<<<Delta 44 supports multiclients. >>>

Oh, the Delta does. but Audacity doesn't. Audacity likes running in really simple machines and only supports one sound device.

Koz

USB microphones appear to be a really good deal until you find out how closely tethered you are to the computer. The 3-pin XLR connection on the bottom of the microphone--assuming it's normal -- is designed to go hundreds of feet. That's one significant difference right there. When they shoot Meet T...