Audacity Forum

If you have a symphony where the last note is one lone violin that slowly fades into the sunset, then you have hope. If the last note of your performance is one instrument with a bunch of other people playing in the background, then practically speaking, you're dead. You're in the same boat as the p...

Audacity waked up from First Birthday in Mono. Change in the Preferences > Audio I/O panel and then restart Audacity.

Koz

I use Audacity on Linux and Mac because I don't have anything else--and mostly for live capture, not editing. On the PC, I have a much more powerful software that I use for any serious (to me) work. So I am actually tri-lingual. I can speak (badly) all three dialects of Audacity. You may want to kno...

The sound level provided by your entertainment music system can be as much as 1000 times louder than the one the Mic-In of a laptop is expecting. Since the laptop is expecting a very weak signal from a microphone, it's easily damaged and adjusting the computer's volume controls will not help. You ca...

We just happened to have beaten this up in an older thread.

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1876

Koz

You know the Mic-In on a sound card only has one channel, right? Are you sure you're plugged into the Line-In? Plug a special cable into the Line-In of your sound card, launch Audacity pretty much like you have been and click once inside the red recording meters. This will make them active without a...

Projects are very difficult to move. Projects are clouds of files, not just one or two. To move a project, you would have to move the AUP file, the _DATA folder with all the little AU files inside and all the original capture clips from your live musical performance and in their original folders. If...

<<<The AIF that I convert to is over 6 MB. Why so much larger? >>> I'll tell you that right after you tell me the numbers you got when you opened it up in QuickTime INFO. <<<I downloaded the LAME lib, but I can't click on it.>>> Now you're really confusing the steps. When you downloaded the "la...

<<<Can anyone advise me as to how I can get the audio and video matched up?>>> Change the sound card? First, the Audacity capture should be 48000/16-bit for video, not 44100 (I do this all the time). But the sample rate conversion should not give you sync problems. Much more likely, the cheap sound ...

You know you're not making a Music CD, right? So the performance in the car depends on the MP3 decoder included in the car radio to be proper and calibrated. Above that, you have to capture the performance at the right level. When you capture the tapes, do the red record sound meters bounce all the ...