Audacity Forum

The odd one has battery voltage mixed in with the sound. I have a USB microphone amplifier that does that. Effect > Normalize > Remove DC Offset. You'll have to do that after every recording on that machine. Whatever device is converting analog audio signals to digital is broken. I have also receive...

<<<Can I change sound levels using Audacity ? With the equaliser ? >>> You can change sound levels by selecting the whole performance and Effect > Amplify. However, what it's going to do is give you very damaged sound only more quiet. Digital systems do not gracefully overload like some analog audio...

I'm not contributing anything. I just want to see if I can get the post to go to seven chapters.
Koz

<<<post details of your system / set-up and exactly what you are doing.>>>

Don't do it! It's a trap!!

Koz

This post sounds familiar. Did you post this twice?

The original file is almost certainly not a WAV file. Those are huge and they always get smaller. Right click > Properties > audio Properties or Summary to find out what you really have.

Koz

<<<I tried 1.2.6 to start but I had some trouble getting it to export to mp3 format correctly for some reason>>> So the trouble started way back there. I'm terribly tempted to solve that one first. Defragging your hard drive is important and never out of line, but this time I think Error Checking yo...

Put a Label at the beginning of each song. Apple-B or Control-B. Then File > Export Multiple and Audacity will create a pile of individual song files for you.

WAV is good. Everybody goes right for the MP3 format and that can cause sound damage. Both Windows and Apple know what a WAV is.

Koz

It would have been a little better had you posted further up the forum so we wouldn't have to ask you what kind of computer you have or which version of Audacity. But we do.

Koz

Dig in the Windows Control Panels and see if the right things are selected and turned up. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel <<<all of a sudden>>> All of a sudden like right after you plugged in your USB device? That's the ...

It may say it's a WAV file, but it's really an IMA file which is a compressed format. So you're going between two compressed formats which is why nothing seems to help. I don't remember if Audacity 1.2 will open up IMAs or not. 1.3 might. You can have 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine at the same time as ...