Audacity Forum

<<<have begun copying them into one window to begin placing them in the right order >>> What did you mean by that? If you copied music files from one place to another, Audacity will lose track of where they are and try to play the effects files instead. Those sound weird. How full is your hard drive...

Without digging through all the web pages looking, how does the torq connectiv connect to the Mac? USB? Analog? Whatever it is, you need to select it in... Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Restart Audacity and you may need to select the same thing in Audacity > Preferences > Au...

Audacity will not correctly open up a Windows Media (WMA) file.

Koz

<<<Olympus DS 2400 digital voice recorder. >>> As we found in an earlier post, Olympus uses a special 4-bit sound format that won't open up anywhere else in the world--except their own software. If you're on a Mac, it's a simple cable from Headphone-Out to Mac Line-In. Transfer in real time. If you'...

When you open up your exported WAV files, what are the specifications? Are they 44100, 16-bit, Stereo? Right Click the file > Properties > either Extended or Summary. A typical error is try to manage 32-bit Floating files instead of 16 bit. Those will act weird, and Audacity likes to make those. Koz

<<<I recorded and edited 15-20 sounds and have begun copying them into one window to begin placing them in the right order and timings and whatnot.>>> It's usually a very bad idea to change locations, folders, or directories after you start a Project. Audacity will look for files in the same locatio...

<<<If you right click on the file and look at the advanced audio properties, Windows should tell you what format they are.>>>

Son of a gun. That even works in Win2K -- in a slightly awkward way. Right click the file > Properties > Summary.

Who knew?

Koz

Do you have Windows set to show you file extensions? That can help a lot when it turns out what you thought was beautifulMusic.wav is really beautifulMusic.m4a.

Biiiig difference.

My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > Uncheck [Hide File Extensions].

Koz

<<<I want to give others access to my Audacity projects.>>> About Monday of this week, I had an event that will live in my mind for a very long time. Somebody send me an Audacity Project and I could actually open it when it got here. I had to lie down for a minute. That's not the rule. As you're fin...

<<<(Windows isn't as intuitive as it used to be!)>>>

MS-DOS 2.1. Now there was an intuitive operating system. [sigh]

Koz