Audacity Forum

Audacity does not save sound files. Put the AUs and AUPs back where you found them.

To get a good, clear, stand-alone sound file, you need to Export As WAV, or Export Selection...As WAV.

Koz

Closing 1.3.7 is interesting. APPLE-Q will not work and Audacity > Quit Audacity is gray. I can close Audacity by clicking on the little red ball X and then Audacity > Quit Audacity lights up. It's unstable. I just relaunched Audacity and it closes normally. This is ringing bells. I've had this prob...

No and I can't replicate it, either. I exported a short sound clip as AIFF and it slid right into iTunes and played just fine. If you open each file in QuickTime Player and press Apple-I, an INFO panel will pop up and tell you stuff. WAV files are Little Endian. AIFF files are Big Endian. Do yours f...

My Wireless Apple keyboard has CONTROL, ALT (Option), and APPLE (Command) keys in that order left to right. It's the same on the Kensington and McAlley third source keyboards. The 12" PowerBook and much older 12" iBook (they'll both hide behind a sheet of Xerox paper) have a keyboard Funct...

I made a shortcut to Export Selection by pressing CONTROL-ALT-E and it works.

Koz

Yes, I begin to see what the problem is. 1.3.7 under Tiger 10.4.11. Intel Mac Mini. "Contrast" invites me to ALT-APPLE-C and that works to bring up the dialog box. But it only works one way. It doesn't toggle. Once the dialog box is on the screen, all I get is that warbly beep. CONTROL-ALT...

<<<I converted the video file to a wav file but it's still quit when I try to remove the vocals!>>>

Audacity crashes? That's not the question you asked at the top. Is that what happens?

Koz

Thank yew.

Koz

Do the lights on the front of the MP flash when you talk? The Shure SM57 is a moving coil ("Dynamic") microphone and doesn't need phantom power. Did you try to press record and see if it makes a sound recording? It's not normal for the computer speakers to be on while you record. It's too ...

<<<microphone jack (on my Logitech Premium Notebook headset)>>> It did take a minute to wade through that. The male connector on the headset cable is the plug. The jack is the female inside the computer. I think I divine that the computer is a PC--possibly a laptop? Yes, if you can get a cheap compu...