Audacity Forum

WAV. WAV files are accepted by all three computer platforms.

Koz

<<<At the end of side one, I chose " pause", then started the second side and chose " pause" again to complete recording the audio file.I clicked on end to finish the project.>>> That may be what happened. Record-Pause in the middle while you flip the album over. When you get to ...

<<<So, if I continue to use Total Recorder for my internet recordings I presume I can then import those recordings into Audacity, edit them and then save the amended file.>>> That's how I do it. <<<If I import an MP3 file into Audacity, edit it and then export as an MP3 file will the original record...

Quick Note. You can get really wacky problems if you Pause Record your show instead of Stopping it. Can you export your show to WAV? Let's see.....Do you get the the meta-data dialog box (song title, artist...) when you try to export?

Koz

Audacity will not do anything in real time. It's a post production tool.

Record or capture a performance clean and then apply filters to it after lunch to make it sound like you want.
Koz

You keep using the fuzzy words.

We need: "I'm trying to capture a Logitech Desktop USB microphone on my Windows Vista Machine." We need equipment descriptions with part numbers and price tags, not concepts.

Koz

You may have violated one of Audacity's requirements. Audacity is pretty simple and likes running on a really simple machine. Machines with two or more major conflicting sound services are not simple. You didn't say what you were recording, but everybody starts out life wanting to record Internet Mu...

At the risk of dodging the problem, Audaity 1.3 has a terrific hard limiter. Effect > Leveler. Apply more than once for extreme crushing. You can also use the Amplify tool and deselect "no clipping." That one will produce serious distortion.

Koz

Macs don't do that without some help.

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... mputer#Mac

Koz

Audacity is an Editorial Production Environment Manager. A vast majority of the postings are from people trying to make it into a WAV editor or worse, a real-time WAV editor, which it's not. We really, really, really wish there was a way to explain that to people before they start using it. Audacity...