Audacity Forum

Here we are on the test bench. Intel Mac Mini minimal install. Few other applications.

Leopard patched this morning.

Audacity 1.3.9a Release 15 JUL.

I can put the spectrum analyzer behind the main editor and the meters do not minimize.

Koz

Next time please post in the forum particular to your Audacity and computer so we won't have to ask you...Which version of Audacity -- exactly -- and which Computer do you have? Version numbers, operating system, revisions?

Koz

<<<put the main Audacity window in front of the Spectrum Analyze window.>>>

I can do that in Mac 1.3.7. I can try the others. I can't get more than one analysis, tho. How are you doing that?

Yup. I can do it in 1.3.8 Release Jul 21.

Koz

<<<He claimed, however, to not be able to reproduce the sound, and he would not show me his test setup and would not allow me to demonstrate the issue.>>> Right. That's the step where they cut the Mac off from the possibly damaged outside world and perform isolated tests. <<<The technician did his r...

<<<When I am in the middle of a recording>>>

Either point to the original posting, or fill this out a lot more. Pretend I'm going to go to the store and buy your music system. Model numbers, everything.

USB Turntable, by any chance?

Koz

If it took that long, then it's going to need it again, along with your c: drive. Six hours and the next trip through might take two hours and then a half-hour. If it takes longer than about five or ten minutes, then it reeeeely needed it. Do an error check while you're in there. You may have inadve...

It's a setting in Audacity Preferences.

Edit > Preferences > Interface > Language

Koz

I'd be surprised if you could help it at all. It sounds like a sampling error. Does their phone always do that? Back in the bad old days, we used to get a similar problem when a power supply failed inside a piece of audio equipment. Most of the time it would just hum like crazy, and it would be obvi...

I don't think the poster is looking for Cut To Silence during the quiet passages, I think they want a high pass filter switching in and out depending on the show volume.

Koz

<<<This time I tried to emtpy out my audacity folder so there was no naming conflict there>>> People do that all the time and it's insanely dangerous. If you Export to the same filename that contained the original clips and you make a mistake, that's the end of the show. Take the microphones out to ...