Audacity Forum

<<<sure to make me feel crazy as the files are then somehow corrupted and unrecoverable.>>> When Audacity performs a capture, it sucks in the sound data and busts it up into little snippets which it then piles on the hard drive according to where you told it to in the Audacity Preferences. There is ...

Oh, no. There are definite documented instances of problems between Mac Audacity and 24-bit. If you're trying to do that, you can stop right now. I would get everything running at 16-bit, 44100 and then go up and out from there. That's the most plain vanilla sound format. If you can't get that one t...

<<<I dont think I'm trying to do anything fancy>>> You're not, but you're using a messy method to get there. Speed changes happen when two sound cuts on the time line have different compression or technical standards. If your voice bed is MP3 and the music is WAV, that's just not going to work. I do...

<<<im using shure m447's carts / styli>>> Here, you're compulsive. Did it make you crazy that you could either buy a cartridge that would sound excellent or you could buy one that didn't break when you scratched, but not both? I have paperwork and documentation for an M447 (remember, compulsive), so...

Oh. I thought there was something I didn't like about that question. Audacity doesn't save sound files. Audacity saves audio management environments consisting of billions of different files. Export the work as WAV and do production with that. Also, Audacity doesn't always get along with having two ...

Are the two Audacity projects of the same digital standard? If not, then Audacity has to convert on the fly and that takes a lot of processing power. Open each sound file in QuickTime and Press Apple-I. How full is your hard drive? Select your System Drive and press Apple-I. No audio or video produc...

Oh you can totally buy a studio quality boom headset microphone. Vocal performers use them all the time. They are not, however, US$29.95 at Radio Shack and since they are real microphones, you still need either the radio audio connection or the mixing desk and in some cases battery service to make t...

I have never stretched a stocking over a wire hanger. I use panty hose. Actually, I bought a ready-made one, but I really needed to write that line. This comes up all the time and I wish I could point to actual hardware that would do the job. Each job I've done involved using stuff that normal human...

Nyquist.

Nyquist laid down laws of digital sampling of analog signals, but I don't think that has anything to do with the filters. Like most French people are horrified at the idea of French Fries.

I'd be googling this right now which you can do. I'm going to bed.

Koz

You can back up anywhere in a commercial music CD by scanning backwards. There is no provision to automatically back up 30 seconds from any arbitrary point. I record radio talk shows for use in the car and I'm frequently scanning backwards fifteen to thirty seconds to hear something I missed the fir...