Audacity Forum

Audacity won't open up most highly compressed file types; AAC, MP4, M4A, etc. etc. No matter how you try to open them up, you'll get trash or maybe a squeek in place of the music.

You need to convert the music to something Audacity can understand before they will open.

Koz

Hold on. I pinged one of the forum daddies.

Koz

<<<Don't you get this:>>> Version creep? I haven't been paying attention to which forum has all the problems, but it could be 1.2. I've never had this problem because I set the OS to show me filename extensions and I know which types are acceptable. But I can point to a number of people who got nast...

<<<"Import > Raw Data" >>> That's very different from... Open > music.wmv Sure, no problem! <<<I don't understand what you mean.>>> There is an Intel version of Mac Audacity and there is a Motorola version. One of them will open and seem to run on the wrong computer creating all sorts of &...

The spectrogram at least, is a graphic representation of all parts of a selection in relation to each other. That's never in real time. You know you can get the sound meters running without recording? Set up Audacity to record but don't press the record button. Instead click inside the red record me...

I have noticed [knocking on wood simulated Formica®] that the web site action has been very good. I haven't cursed at the response and redraw time in....oh...weeks.

Koz

<<<just counted to ten so as not to be instantly banned from this forum!>>>

Unlikely. The only way you can do that on the forum is to start selling web sites to make my manhood bigger (it's happened). And even that's only if they don't work.

Koz

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 80&p=19195

Koz

<<<I am also on the lookout for some good literature on the subject of Digital Audio.>>>

http://www.soundonsound.com/

I buy the smeared ink on smashed trees version when I can, but it's on my HTML speed-dial.

Koz

Forgive me for editing your post to put a little air in there... I just couldn't read one enormous block of text like that. You obviously want the "Professional Audio Filter." Whatever you shot comes out perfect after application of the filter. This is an old video joke and any time the pr...