Audacity Forum

Since you're doing it manually anyway, you may be doing too much work. Select the whole show and Effect > Normalize > Remove DC (lots of tools work a whole lot better when you do this first). Then zoom into each sound so you can select it accurately and Edit > Silence Audio. Zoom back out and select...

I know 10.3 (Panther) worked, I used to have a G3 iBook that worked just fine. However. Not very many people had anything good to say about 10.1. "Good start. Now when are they going to finish it?" The reviews all featured the words "Buggy" and "Unstable." Just the fact...

An Audacity Project consists of the AUP project manager (not a sound file) and about a million capture snippets which, as you're finding out, aren't really good sound files, either. You can sometimes put them back together with the crash recovery tools. Crash Recovery http://audacityteam.org/wiki/in...

Missed a step. I can make the spectrum window and the timeline swap places by just clicking on them. Last one clicked comes forward.

Koz

Like that?

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Koz

<<<So, OK launch Audacity with your meters below the Audacity window, then do nothing else except minimise Audacity. Do the meters disappear? >>> No. <<<Task switch back to Audacity, >>> I can't do that. Task switching just shuffles windows to the front or to the back like the pasteboard flash cards...

WAV files aren't compressed and they're huge compared to the other compressed formats. Audacity does everything internally uncompressed. When you make a new MP3, Audacity uses the compression values in the Preference settings, not the original settings. Multiple compressions always add noise and dis...

<<<No. Machine runs maintenance scripts itself. 10.5.8.>>>

You leave your machine on and lit up 24/7? I know Systems Operators at work that actually do that. I don't believe "periodic" runs on a sleeping machine. Most people let their machines fall asleep.

Koz

<<<My impression is that the Apple tech did NOT even reproduce my line-in test, and that the attached analysis of the 5 seconds of 'silence' via the USB mic shows the problem. Do you agree, or is it the background noise?>>> Analog testing is very difficult to do. The analog amplifier part of a USB m...

<<<vestax mixer>>>

Model numbers are good. Also good is a detailed explanation on what the turntable is and how you have it connected.

<<<berhinger device to my mac.>>>

Why are you using the Behringer and which one is it?

Koz