Audacity Forum

Audacity's default sample rate of 32-bit floating causes problems now and again by making MP3 music files that not everybody can play.

Reset Audacity preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo and try that. That's the digital standard for Music CDs.

Koz

Audacity also defaults to 32-bit and that doesn't match anything. Try 44100, 16-bit, Stereo.

Koz

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Koz

That's probably the worst way to do it. If you have Windows XP and certain sound cards, you may be able to capture the sound while it's still digital and not have to use the microphone. That's the "Mix-Out" thing. Then there is the jumper cable and Total Recorder for Windows. http://www.hi...

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No. I'm sure someone else will drop in and explain everything. I did make a graphic of the simplest possible AUP project file. I opened up piano2.wav and Saved the Project. This is what happened. I know the upper blob (channel="0") is left and the lower blob (channel="1") is righ...

<<<made sure that my sound,speech and audio devices are connected and activated.>>> And then installed Skype which messed them all up. Skype is pretty brutal and unforgiving about taking over your sound services no matter what. If you do manage to put everything right again, they may go all wonky at...

I would not be using Audacity 1.2. 1.2 was designed at the close of the Harding Administration and is very simple and unsophisticated. Audacity 1.3.8 is much better at accepting commands and controls, but I still wouldn't bet the farm on doing what you want. Audacity 1.3 just recently got batch tool...

You can get that error with wacky filenames. Numbers, upper and lower case letters, dash and underscore. That's it. No other characters should ever appear in a filename. I have to push files around the corporation so I don't use spaces, either.

LeadCaptureFX20090823.wav

Koz