Audacity Forum

But we have heard of this before. This kind of thing happens when people try to do precision editing with MP3. "How come Audacity adds silence at the end of my MP3 export?" It's possible this was a shortcoming in Audacity 1.2. 1.2 sometimes didn't pay attention to what it was doing and it ...

<<<OK. So now shouldn't I be able to play the file?>>> No. We haven't recorded anything yet. That was the Audacity diagnostic mode that lets us inspect for problems or damage. Press Stop and then Record. The red meters will bounce and the blue waveforms will start to march across the timeline. Press...

Audacity out of the box contains settings that a lot of other sound programs don't like. Make sure your Audacity Preferences are set for 44100, 16-bit (not 32), Stereo (not Mono). Restart Audacity to make sure the setting stick.

See if that doesn't help.

Koz

Did you post in one of the other forums here? Anyway... Before editing, remove the DC from the show clips and captures. This location changes between Audacity versions... Effect > Utility > DC Bias Removal. You can't do this in Post Production. You have to do it to each clip before you start editing...

It's 1000 Hz, or more accurately, 977 Hz. The next peak up is 2931 the third harmonic which means the tone has clipping distortion. There's probably a bunch more, but they all died in the MP3 compression of your sample. Pull the analysis window really large on your screen and switch to Log display a...

They're all correct. If you have a complex noise, you will get many multiple peaks in the analysis. Be sure and increase the sample rate to at least 8000 or 9000 for accuracy. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/piano_G1.jpg One of my favorite graphics. That's one piano note. It's actually not G1. I ...

It would have worked fine had it actually been an MP3. The latest streaming work is all Flash (h.263), MP4, or M4A. Some of the Apple stuff is AAC. You should change Windows to show you file extensions. That usually clears up a lot of problems. My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > [ ] Hide File Ex...

<<<i record a live track,>>>

The latest slippery words has "Live" meaning you captured something "Live" from the internet, not you sang in front of a microphone with your guitar. Which is it?

Koz

<<<NADY Microphone>>>

NADY has been making microphones for about forty years. Which model do you have? Point to a web site?

Koz

No. Once you closed Audacity, that married the two shows forever. If you never close Audacity, you can UNDO your brains out to get back to the original two shows.

Koz