Audacity Forum

Here's another request to kill off "All Things Audio." The vast majority of postings on three of the four forums in that group demand that we ask the poster what kind of machine they have and/or which Audacity. In other words, all the information we should already have from a posting in th...

<<<somewhere arround the zero-axis and doesn't even go under -0.5 or above 0.5. Should I be afraid, because of that?!>>> "Afraid" may be too strong a word, but you are not making good use of Audacity's ability to handle loud sounds. What kind of microphone and how is it connected and to wh...

It's almost guaranteed you're on a PC. Windows is set to record "Mix Out" instead of the simple microphone. So you get to mess about in the Window Sound Control Panels, you lucky dog. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_...

The headphone output of your keyboard should slide right into the Line-In connection on the side of your Mac with this adapter--assuming you already have a 1/4" to 1/4" stereo cable. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062467 If you're on a PC deskside machine, make sure...

<<<1. How do I open the MP3 >>> Audacity will open up MP3 sound files just fine. That's not what you have. When Audacity encounters a highly compressed sound file that it doesn't understand, it tries to open it up and play it "in real time." A one minute show compressed 60 to 1 will play b...

<<<This is so frustrating...

But perfectly consistent with Audacity never doing anything in real time. If for no other good reason than it's impossible to construct an UNDO if you do that. It's not a DAW and will not apply filters during a capture, either.

Koz

Is it written anywhere that your CD Authoring software will not handle the original file directly? iTunes will manage quite a number of wacky music settings natively.

Koz

Vista has some weird input considerations.

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=796

Koz

That should work. FireWire 400 will handle a DV Camera data stream and stereo sound. I think that clocks in at 3.5MB or 4MB/sec, and FireWire has excellent device management (he said, typing on a Mac). I would have picked hard drive problems since you're on a PC. When was the last time you defragmen...

<<<Noise reduction doesn't work very good also, the result sounds some kind of robotic.>>> You must be in Audacity 1.2. 1.3 has a much better control over the reduction process. Also noise profile is critical. If you can't find a section of the performance with noise and no talent/actor/singer, then...