Audacity Forum

There is no MPEG 3. The format everybody calls "MP3" is really MPEG 1, Layer III, a video format. The video was pretty awful, but the associated sound format worked really well, so they kept it.

Koz

<<<save the position of the cursor>>> Sorta. You can set a label at the cursor position by pressing Control-B. The label becomes sticky or magnetic as you go over it later. Nobody uses the Play and Stop buttons. Spacebar will start and stop play. If you Drag-Select some of your show and press Contro...

Yes, that's a very poor work-around because MP3 takes its pound of flesh each time you go in and out.

Do you get the same problem with exporting a WAV? The desperation method is export a WAV and convert to MP3 somewhere else. That will be far higher quality (but won't solve the problem).

Koz

Mess around in Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Output. See if rational things are selected as far as you can tell. Do you run Skype or Vonage? They're both pretty vicious about building audio pathways their own way. How about SoundFlower or WireTap? Both of those get a vote as to whe...

<<<the light is on indicating that it's functioning normally>>> Actually, I'd believe the light means there's five volts arriving from the computer and from that you might infer that the microphone is probably working. We probably should read more into a glowing LED than is there. You didn't start t...

Many people on and off the forum like the Zoom recorders. Search the forum and Google.

Koz

You Stumped the Band® I can't get rid of it, either. It's a combination of very low quality, bad sample rate, and the fact that the speaker never stops for breath, so there's no good place to get the profile from. I even tried the trick of duplicating the brief hum segment and used that for the prof...

Post an address of some of your work.

You are the poster child for someone recording in exactly the right format given your performances. No, I don't think you will come out of only one speaker...but we're about to find out.

Koz

Lets cast our minds back. Where did this/these tracks come from? Live performance into a microphone mixer and then into the Line-In of your Mac?

Koz

You are listening to "One Computer Late." Sound takes that long to get from one side of your computer to the other and no software adjustment is going to fix that, probably. You might want to try Audacity 1.3. 1.3 has better delay and management controls than 1.2 did, but it's still not go...