Audacity Forum

<<<I've only got a PC >>>

That would be a Windows PC.

Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

That's pretty much all we got. I didn't think it was hardware specific.

Koz

What's a "fast track?"

Koz

<<<running fine up until the last week or so and I use it every day.>>> So it's probably starting to fill up, right? How big is the hard drive and how much stuff do you have on it? You can start getting machine insanity when the room on the System Drive runs out. Click on the Drive > File > Get Info...

Try making one 301 and the others 300 and see what happens. I think you just happened to fall into one of the known music duration formats. It's startlingly good when it's working.

"That's 'Pennsylvania 65000' from 'Glenn Miller in Stockholm'"

Koz

<<<CD's Album name in Roxio's software>>> That's because Music CDs have no room for album name or much or anything else. They were so pushed for room when they designed the original music CD format, they stripped the audio of a lot of it's "extra" coding and deleted the song names and albu...

3900 Hz This is classic heterodyning. You get sum and difference frequencies whenever two different frequencies are present in a non-linear system. Every radio receiver on the planet works using this technique. Some radio receivers use it more than once. FM transmitters use this technique to get eno...

<<<I am new to using audacity and used it to take about five hours of notes on lectures.>>> Lets use better language. You used Audacity to capture a live lecture performance on your laptop. <<<I imported about 25 files>>> You missed a lot of important steps in the middle there. After your live captu...

<<<I am totally new to the software >>> Also new to the forum. <<<live sound using the software on a laptop and a mixer soundboard? >>> Which computer, Which mixer, Which microphone, Which Audacity? Model Numbers, please. There's billions of different combinations available. Koz

<<<or even recognized in the PC by Cool Edit.>>> That's broken. Audacity produces perfectly normal Microsoft WAV files and I go back and forth all the time. I don't think it will like AIFF files, however. Do you have Windows and Mac set to show you file extensions? Good time to start. Finder > Prefe...

Unless you have an extraordinary machine, iTunes is the only way to produce a "Music CD." If you put a blank CD in your machine and OK the opening dialog box, OS-X will produce a Data CD. Anything you drag to that disk will retain exactly the same file format. Music, Pictures, Spreadsheets...