Audacity Forum

<<<the previous Beta 1.3.5 should still be able to record eight channels with your device. >>>

So it's not my imagination that 1.3.5 was the last known good stable unstable release.

Koz

I wrote up what I went through to get my USB microphone to work. You may get some hints in there. Does it do anything?

USB Microphone
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/USB_Microphone.html

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The first thing that happened is you didn't delete Audacity. Or not the whole thing. You also need to lose the audacity.cfg preferences file for a complete deletion. Your Windows Sound Panel probably got reset. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#U...

<<<f there are two rows of frequency on the audacity pane, does it mean it's stereo and not mono?>>> Sometimes. That does tell you that you have two channels of audio and not much else. Select a spot in the middle of the performance and click the magnify tool multiple times. For a real stereo show, ...

I got my Intel Mac working with native boot to Tiger 10.4.11 and two FireWire boots to Leopard 10.5.5. The Tiger drive has Audacity 1.2.5 and 1.3.5. One Leopard partition has Audacity 1.3.6 and the other 1.3.7. If I launch a fresh Audacity and open the simple piano trill, only 1.2.5 presents the tim...

<<<Is there voice recognition capacity with audacity?>>> Not the way you think, no. You can't point Audacity at a musical performance and ring a bell when a human starts singing. The other possibility is software to type English words when somebody talks. It won't do that, either. Koz

<<<Is there a way with audacity to amplify the soft voice in the background and suppress the loud voice in the foreground?>>> There's no way with any software to do that. Is it a mono show? If it's a stereo show and one voice is, as an example, left and the other one right in your headphones, then y...

Audacity is a complete slave to the machine it's running on. If you have exclamation marks in your System Configuration software, then yes, the instant Audacity steps on that service, it could damage the OS and take down the machine. Audacity is the stability inspection service.

Koz

<<<I converted them first to MP3 format and had them exported into my iTunes library.>>> There are a bunch of slippery words in there. When you captured your vinyl performance, did you Save the Project and then Export As MP3? Did you take the opportunity to break up the performance into individual s...