Audacity Forum

Recording or capturing on a Mac is pretty straightforward. Plug the tape machine into the Line-In (circle with two black arrows), arrange pathways and press record. Capturing the computer playback is forbidden. Recursive sound pathways get the Windows people into trouble all the time, so the Mac (an...

I would probably run, do not walk to Audacity 1.3.7. 1.3 has a lot of those tools built in, or if not, they have easier ways to apply plugins and external tools. FFMpeg is a separate collection of tools that "knows" what many different music formats are and can manage them. Audacity looks ...

I'm betting feedback. Do you have Audacity set to "play track while recording a new one?" For you to hear what you're doing, you need Audacity to play into your speakers. To record Mix Out, the speaker feed has to go to the Audacity input....and then to the Audacity output...and then to th...

I think I'd start getting used to the idea that the soundcard may not have enough poop (technical term) to do this job. People's computers that ran just fine through multi-page spreadsheets and enormous Photoshop pictures go face-first into the mud the first time they're asked to do something data i...

Intel Macs are forced to use 1.2.5 instead of 1.2.6 and Intel Macs using Leopard are forced to use 1.3.7. Leopard pretty much killed off Audacity 1.2 for us. There are known issues, no patches, no fixes, and no prospect for getting any. 1.2 Projects will open up in 1.3.7, and you can have both versi...

On some newer machines, recording from the internet has been disabled. I use Total Recorder to record on Windows and WireTap for the Mac.

Koz

<<<sorry i'm kind of new to the mac environment>>>

I'm not sorry. That's good to know because I can tailor my answers so I don't lose you. Trust me, most Mac users do not need to get this deep into their machine.

Koz

The waveforms represent the motion or vibration of the air during sound. It's a picture of your sound performance. The default presentation is in percent, zero to 100 (or 1 on the scale). It's handy to view the waveform like that and it's totally logical, but it's not how your ear works. Your ear pe...

<<<Maybe this has been a bit of a red herring. >>> Not only is it hidden, it's actively managed by Audacity, so it comes and goes. So, so far, Audacity and the computer are in perfect working order and your internet connection fails. Various applications deal with interrupted bitstreams different wa...

<<<I have a new '09 iMac running intel with the latest audacity version, 1.2.5 for intel macs. Thanks for helping so far, keep it coming, this is just bizarre.>>>

Close. OS-X 10.5? Leopard?

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Koz