Audacity Forum

Most iTunes music is AAC compressed format. Audacity has no idea what AAC is.

Koz

Vista on the PC and Leopard on the Mac are the New Kids on the Block. There are oddities here and there, but they've both been out long enough to generate a list of work-arounds. I'm generally the Mac person, but the Windows people should be along shortly. One thing people notice immediately is that...

<<<Can these have caused the problem? >>> Yes. PCM/WAV 16-bit, 44100 (or 48000) are common as dirt and everybody understands them. Not so 32-bit floating. Those are a little odd. <<<My objective is to record some of my LP records to high quality sounding CD's so suggestions on settings to be used wo...

I can make a lot of wild guesses, but did you make the track on a Mac or a PC and do you have a PC Avid or an older Mac Avid? Throw numbers. Give us a push.

Koz

This almost always happens when you use a Windows laptop computer. The only audio input a lot of them have is for a single microphone, not a stereo show. Unfortunately, the Line-Out from your cassette machine (like mine) is some 1000 times louder than normal sound level for the laptop Mic-In. Some l...

<<<I thought that was the whole idea about floating point was that if you do overload, you don't lose the peaks,>>> Certainly not. The whole idea is to make the entire rest of the audio response curve enormously more accurate. Somebody posted a demonstration where they reduced a show level by some 4...

Audacity preferences is the second place to go, not the first. First you go into Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Make sure that's switched to Line-In and not Built-In Microphone. Then go back to Audacity and select default Input. You can click once inside the Audacity red reco...

<<<Hey, I have the same problem but I'm using a mic...>>> So you don't have the same problem. The original poster had a high level (line level) output of his production sound mixer which is perfectly suited to the Line-In of his Mac Book Pro. If all you have is a microphone, you need some electronic...

You might be looking in the wrong place. This is the kind of thing that happens when you plug a high or Line-Level signal into a microphone input. Your mixer has both types of inputs. Are you sure you're using the right connection? It's highly unlikely that you have digital damage, although that's p...

Yes, given that you have a cassette recorder. You can connect the Headphone-Out of your computer or the Line-Out if it has that to the Line-In of your cassette recorder. Press Record on the cassette recorder and [spacebar] or Play in Audacity. Come back in a half-hour. You didn't say what kind of co...