Audacity Forum

Click on the end of the beginning piece and drag toward the beginning. Press delete and everything you have selected will vanish. Then click on the beginning of the end piece you want to trash and drag toward the end. Press delete and that clip will vanish. Use the magnifier tool to go really far in...

You mean like when you click once inside the red record meters and they wake up and start metering the input? Not that I know of.

Koz

First, you may find that if you're on an Intel Mac, you should be running 1.2.5, not 1.2.6. This will be a serious problem the first time you try to create an MP3 and it won't do it. This is actually a programming bug. The wrong version is supposed to fail immediately, not hang on and lance you late...

<<<I wonder if, in a future release, there could be some exception to the Delete key?>>> We've been fighting forever to get that feature. In the old versions of Audacity, if you didn't select anything, all the effects keys would drop dead. The forum is littered with: "Why are all the effects gr...

You can get iTunes to import your songs as WAV files by changing the import settings. iTunes > Preferences > General > Insert a CD > Import Settings..... If you pick WAV, 44100, 16 bit, stereo, then those newly imported files should slide right into Audacity. You may decide to change Audacity's sett...

You designed one of the more complicated sound systems--further complicated by having it all in a PC, which, by the last calculation has 254,976 different sound pathway combinations--with one simple sound card. I started to look up the equipment you have and pretty much gave up. You probably should ...

It's not just the sample frequency. Everything has to match. 44100, 16 bit, stereo. I went 'round and 'round with my USB microphone before I understood that it needed to be in mono. "Error opening sound device..." is a sore point with Audacity. It's a complete show stopper, the tools are n...

You imported a sound file that Audacity didn't know how to manage. Open the file up in QuickTime Player and press Apple-I while it's playing. That should tell you the file type and I bet it's not a straight MP3 or WAV file. If you got it from iTunes, it may be an Apple AAC compressed file which Auda...

<<<headphone jack on the tape deck and the microphone jack on my laptop.>>> Then that's probably where most of the fuzzy sound is coming from. Headphone level and "line" level are close sisters of each other. They're both about a thousand times louder than the microphone connection on your...

Turns out there is a way to force Windows Sound Recorder to go over 60 seconds, but it's beautifully painful. You have to do multiple 60 second blank recordings, stitch them all together, import them, and then record over them.

I'm entering this in the Painful Computing Hall Of Fame.

Koz