Audacity Forum

We keep getting people who start out life with trash for a show because of their "studio," microphone, MicPre, or other capture shortcomings. There isn't much we can do for them. If all those conditions are met to your satisfaction, then yes, there are things the capture program can do for...

<<<Did you say that No, there is not a way to recover the files?>>> I said we need to try and figure out where they went. Are you sure you didn't rearrange folders or clean up your system in some way? It doesn't have to have anything directly to do with Audacity. I like to periodically take all my v...

What we're trying to avoid is the situation that several church recordists have. Their computer is plugged into an outlet at one end of the church and the mixer and microphone system--and possibly the speaker amplifier is plugged into the other end -- in completely different power. Now assume the ch...

All that plus nobody wants to hear that their four hour capture crashed and there's no possibility of recovery. Millions of au files can be put back together with recovery tools. <<<293 GB.>>> We like two numbers when you describe the drive. Is this like a 750GB total drive or higher? I found on sev...

Point to an example of damaged show.

Koz

iTunes® music is generally saved in Apple AAC format which is an H.264 variation. Windows Medial Player® saves music in Windows Media format, another H.264 variation. Audacity 1.2 doesn't understand either one. Audacity in any version doesn't do format translations very well. Convert your music usin...

<<<WAV may be burned to CD>>> Windows machines tend to not have built-in burning programs to produce a data (not music) CD like Macs do. For that you'll need one of the free burning programs--one may have come with the CD drive in your machine. You can also produce a Music CD in Windows Media, assum...

<<<Power settings>>> Computers have "Screen Savers" or systems like that and they've been around for years. A lot of them also have "Energy Miser" services and the two are frequently different. I have one machine that warns me if I set them to activate in the wrong order. You jus...

<<<Will a simple white noise do the trick?>>> 'Fraid not. FM radio has white noise. To really put the AM radio over, you have to come up with some sort of popping, periodic electrical interference either 50 Hz or 60Hz depending on your continent. I know the fashion is Google > Edit > Upload, but I d...

The Reader's Digest version is... Download and run Audacity Version 1.3. You can have both versions as long as you only run one at a time. Run the graphic equalizer and dip gently down below 300 and sharply down above 5000 Apply this compressor with the compression ratio cranked up to 7.7... http://...