Audacity Forum

Everybody's in love with MP3 files. They cause damage each and every time you make one.

Do all your production in uncompressed WAV format and then convert to MP3 at the end if that's what you need.

Koz

Here's more on selecting. http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Selecting_Audio Nobody uses the play and stop buttons. The spacebar will stop and start playback. Zoom In with Control-E. Zoom back out with Control-F. Control-3 will zoom out a little bit. Place Labels at your edit points with C...

How do I do a forum Quote search? There doesn't seem to be any provision for Exact Search, All These Words, In This Order, usually performed with quote marks. "to play the whole song from the beginning." I do not want every hit with "to," "from" "the," "s...

<<<i export this as an MP3.>>> You need to stay in WAV land. MP3 compression causes damage messing up your cancellation. Also, arethmetic cancellation like this needs two events to work. Amplitude and phase. So you slide the track back and forth and you may have to ampify up or down as well. This is...

h.264 came with QT7. QT7 isn't completely stable with anything earlier than Tiger -- 10.4.

You need to haunt the Mac help forums about how to move your iTunes. I never got that to work completely well, either. I'm not a big music listener, so it didn't make any difference.

Koz

We didn't allow our 10.3.9 machine to go to QT7. There were some really bad things that happened when Panther people tried to go too far. Everything stands on QT services. I'm surprised that you could back up to an earlier version and everything would still work. Actually, it doesn't, does it? I wou...

<<<They invariably use "Automatic Gain Control" which makes a complete mess of the music.>>>

Which may be one of the reasons the Zoom is so popular. You can turn all that auto stuff off.

Koz

MacJanitor is a series of instructions neatly packaged that you can perform yourself in "Terminal" if you want to. OS-X is a UNIX based operating system and as such, it likes to write everything down as it goes. Those lists get really long and can start to affect machine performance. MacJa...

Bingo. You can open up your AUP file in any text editor and look at it. There are file and folder names burned into the programming. This is a very simple, graphically expanded AUP file. Note the folder names. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg /Users/koz/Desktop/piano2.wav It's going to go loo...

In Windows/Audacity 1.3, the Audacity Preferences file is audacity.cfg. You need to destroy this file for Audacity to "start over." If the new Audacity didn't ask you "English?" when you started it, Audacity didn't actually start over. I need to be careful with the words here. Th...