Audacity Forum

<<<Can someone tell me what is mastering? is it really required to master the sermons? >>> I think it's a slippery phrase much like "Post Production." Describe the pathway. You record the performance beginning to end...and then what? Where does the show go from there? If you had an outside...

<<<they do have access to the C drive when they log in .... they can't browse the C drive.>>> This is what's making my head hurt. I don't think there's a way to make lame available over the network--although I could easily be wrong there. Building2MasterServerapublicToolRepositorylame* If you have a...

<<<"lets call it a line in even though its not" >>> I have seen people trying to "hit it in the middle" and design a terrible microphone amplifier that only overloads a little bit at line level. The problem is that without the computer industry's constant effort to frame problems...

I got nothin'. What Windows Media usualy does to me is destroy MP3s right out of the box.

Koz

In Audacity Preferences, 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. I personally use 48000, 16 bit, Stereo as that's the video standard and the quality is slightly higher. You can also use 32-bit floating about which I know nothing. Stay away from 24-bit audio. Be aware that standards lower than 44100, 16 bit, stereo m...

You might try that clip, too as a slightly more important step. That will tell you if you wired your speakers backwards and no amount of software is going to help.

Koz

1.3 is officially Beta, unreleased software. 1.4 stable is waiting in the wings. 1.3 isn't actually as bad as "Beta" software. It's had considerable polish on it and the last little buffing will turn it into stable 1.4. You can install both 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine, you just can't run t...

You found the shell, right? /Applicatons/Utilities/Terminal.app Either open it up right there by double clicking, or drag it to the tool dock at the bottom of the screen and run it from there. It's handy to have that around if your mis-behaved application takes a dive and you have to kill the proces...

<<<because I thought the turntables were at fault.>>> The combination of USB Audio, Vista, and Audacity may cause an unstable condition. It doesn't cause failures most of the time, it just sits there in the shadows waiting for you to relax and then, Blammo! it will refuse to work any further. You lu...

Yes. The files are in a compressed format that Audacity doesn't recognize. Rather than fail to open them, Audacity will try anyway an usually get the compression and speed wrong.

You need to convert these files to WAV, MP3, or Ogg-Vorbis to edit them in Audacity.

Koz