Audacity Forum

<<<The sound that is produced is shockingly BAD!>>> It's supposed to be bad, not Shockingly bad. Just to cover the bases, download and play the Left-Right sound test from my web site ... http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html It's really short and it's revealing if your sound system is doing some...

<<<But you seem to be saying that Audacity might well be doing something else entirely>>> Oh, it's worse than that. There is a recent thread by someone who is trying really hard to get good, simple digital accuracy with the Audacity Import and Export functions ... and is failing. His last posting is...

<<<I'd like more information about this.>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC#Technical_details "FLAC supports only fixed-point samples, not floating-point." <<<I couldn't hear any loss of quality.>>> That's not surprising. 44100/16/Stereo (CD) is good to go for something like 98% of peopl...

One more. Many iTunes don't like 32-bit floating very much. Audacity default sound format (unless you changed it) is 44100, 32-bit floating, Stereo.

Change to 16-bit in Audacity Preferences.

Koz

Something like this happens if you don't wait for iTunes to tell you to put a blank disk in. If you put one in too soon, the computer operating system grabs it instead of the authoring and burning program. iTunes is left with its thumb up its nose wondering what happened. Once you settle your playli...

There are Windows DVD ripper packages that will let you extract the AC3 Surround track. From there, you find decoder and export converter packages to give you the six original tracks. There are a lot of them in Windows land. Google your brains out.

Koz

<<<BTW how were able to remove the vocals despite it being a mono-recording? A friend of mine said that it wasn't possible but apparently you prove him wrong.>>> He didn't remove the vocals from the original song. He rewrote the song by only using the non-vocal parts, Cutting, Copying and Pasting as...

I'm more than even sure that you have the wrong lame file. That's the file I have and I'm on a PPC G4, not an Intel machine. Everything has to match. http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ They scrambled the Mac installers a while back and lost me completely. Did you download the .dmg file for Audacity 1.2.5? D...

What happened when you tried the analog or built-in microphone instead of the USB just for a test?

Koz

It is supposed to do that, but only if you export to a CD authoring system that doesn't have its own. Slight dither is the way Music CDs allow frequency response to 20KHz.

Koz