Audacity Forum

You should be 1.2.6 and the one specifically for PowerPC, not the other one. How much hard drive space do you have? Audio production can be a sudden shock to the system when you find out how much room audio files take up. Oh, and how did you install it? I make up an "Audacity" folder, move...

If you're used to a program with markers, I may have some bad news. Audacity has "Labels" not markers, and whatever you want them to do, they don't. They will appear as Post-It Notes so you can find your way back to an edit later (but not automatically, they're not In and Out points) and y...

<<<I had to convert the wmv to aif. >>> Sorry. Misread your post. Perfectly correct, although Audacity defaults to WAV and you could have stayed there. <<<A one minute wav is only about 500 k.>>> You should probably spend some time in QuickTime. Open each of these files in QuickTime (hopefully, Pro,...

Are you actually recording the laptop microphone, or are you recording something plugged into the microphone connector on the side of the laptop?

Windows? Mac?

Koz

<<<How do I get the .wav file to a manageable size? >>> Let's do that one first. You don't. Windows WAV format is a perfect quality, uncompressed format that can be used as archival storage. It doesn't have a "size" or "compression" slider like the other formats do. It just is. B...

The noise is the data streams falling out of lock with each other. Everybody get a version of them and in different places. It's unstable and changes with atmospheric pressure and humidity. One poster tells us it hates Glenn Miller. No you can't "filter it out" later. You have to not have ...

Oh, one more. If the front and rear connections for microphones are, in fact the same, then you can't use both at once--or you can, but the audio gain is reduced and the chances of distortion go way up. That's not just a Microphone Input. That's a Microphone Input and DC Power Supply to run the Micr...

<<<The idea was to record a podcast with two people and insert sound effects and music as we go by just clicking on a file when we want it inserted.>>> You so much need a production mixer separate from the computer. Yes, you can probably force one computer to do this kicking and screaming, but your ...

Thanks, but let's get it to work first. Step one, abandon the USB service. http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2259&p=8840#p8840 After you get that to work, get a young woman (which group tends to have weapons-grade good hearing) listen to your transfers. Cheap, inexpensive tu...

It's just slightly faster if you saved the original Audacity download file. If not, you just get to sit through the download again.

Koz