Audacity Forum

<<<Other files work just fine >>> Does that mean you can play other sound files in Audacity and you can hear them OK? That's not good news. When you captured the original interview, did you Export As WAV to get a backup sound file? Audacity will not Save sound files. <<I plugged in a MIC to the 2nd ...

Or Edit > Silence. Control-L. Perfectly correct. I didn't answer the original post. However, I think the original post is wrong. <<<(The noises are disturbing only in the pauses, when nobody speaks.)>>> Reducing the spaces to dead zero like that is going to produce a very weird, mechanical presentat...

<<<I have a desktop computer.>>> That's very good news. Crawl back there with a flashlight and describe the connectors. Bulls-eye with an arrow pointing in, Little microphone symbol, etc. Colors. If you have the packaging the sound card came in, that may be enough. Most, if not all, large sound card...

Ummm. 3.5mm plug, like this... http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnectors/audioconnectors.html Well, nobody ever accused the iMic of being especially good at anything, quality, overload, matching, or noise. So that's the weak link here. You can put that in the garage where I put mine. You should have...

<<<Sanyo transcriber >>> Model number? <<<through a cable to my computer.>>> What sort of cable? What sort of computer? The hardware and model numbers make an enormous difference. Laptop? If you're using an analog audio jumper cable between, say, the headphone out of the recorder and the audio in of...

Surprise. My install isn't case sensitive. I can't create test.txt and Test.txt in the same folder.

It had to have come that way. I would not have installed it like that.

Koz

<<<There is indeed a problem launching 1.2.5 on case-sensitive systems>>>

I wonder why not on mine.....

Koz

<<<The fix turned out to be that the Mac operating system was set to "case sensitive". >>> How did you know that, and how would you fix it, other than changing the filenames? In UNIX, audacity and Audacity will coexist in the same folder because they are two different files. You can create...

Which Audacity do you have?

Koz

Audacity isn't a very good converter. Google your brains out. The Sony DAT machines have the same problem. While you're searching, you can transfer all the work into your Mac with a Headphone to Line-In cable.... http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102970 Record in Audacity. This ...