Audacity Forum

<<<It could be my imagination>>> Maybe. How are you connected to the computers? Deskside machines tend to have Line-In on their sound card -- actually they have everything. Laptops tend to have only Mic-In. Aside from the distortion and sound level issues, the microphone connection is mono. Koz

Mistake 1. You can't move Audacity Projects. Put it all back where it was. The official location of everything, files and folders, is burned into the AUP file. Mistake 2. Never do anything manually to the Project Files. All actions and movements have to go through Audacity. After you get everything ...

<<<Do I need to combine all these manually?>>> That's one way. The other way is to press pause instead of stop. The timeline will sit there and wait for you to continue. I predict [pressing fingers to forehead] that the next thing you're going to want is to back up and record over a mistake. That yo...

Can you post a sample of the work? Say fifteen seconds or so and include a portion where the talker stops talking for a second or so. Do not post an MP3 compressed version. It has to be the original WAV file. If you have no WAV file, then you have no show. <<<I have Adobe Audition 3. >>> I have Cool...

I wonder if you used Windows' Add/Remove Programs to get rid of the old Audacity. The language selection is buried in the Audacity Preferences which, in turn, is buried in the Windows Registry. If Audacity didn't ask you "English?" at the beginning, then the old preferences are still in fo...

<<<I even tried reinstalling Audacity >>> Audacity 1.2 on a Windows machine is a problem. 1.2 burns its preferences into the Dreaded Windows Registry instead of a stand-alone preferences file. Did the new Audacity ask you "English?" when you opened it the first time? If it didn't, then you...

We could do with a few more numbers like this:

"I'm using a Sennheiser a23-6 microphone on my HP Windows Vista Home machine with a SoundBlaster Sound Card and Auadcity 1.2.6."

Koz

<<<Can you export from iTunes in WAV format?>>>

No, and I can't, either. iTunes only converts between formats on Import. Get iTunes to burn the song to a CD and then rip the CD with CDEX (this is intentionally difficult to do).

Koz

Edit > Preferences > File Formats. One of the reason Audacity defaults to WAV format music files is that they're accepted on all three major computing platforms with no fuss. You might need to change the Audacity bit depth from 32-floating to 16 to get that interchangeability in any format. Also adj...

Audacity doesn't have recursive sound pathways like Windows does. However you can add it by either downloading SoundFlower and installing it... http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/soundflower.html or buying and installing WireTap. SoundFlower gives you the recursive audio pathways and have a...