Audacity Forum

<<<I have also had these problems using the Audio Hijack app.>>>

But not using the analog capture process in my other note?

Koz

<<<i am well aware of the fact that the audacity files cannot be renamed or moved until the project has been saved in a wav or aiff file.>>> Shucks. And I was doing so well, there, too. <<<Then, without doing anything, the sound will come back on again.>>> I want you to back up even more and tell me...

<<<it's as if some of the files in the data folder are missing.>>> Backwards. The little files in the _DATA folder are pointing to real audio files that aren't there. There are no audio files in a Project. To repeat because this is important, when you save a Project, you do not get audio files. Proj...

<<<Can I run the RCA cables from a Turntable into the mic port and get the same results? My MacBook Pro has no "line in" port per se.>>> If you have the usual connector on the side of a MacBook Pro that looks like a tight circle with two black arrows pointing in, that is the Line-In--both ...

<<<Can you actually change someone's voice with this?>>>

No. That was a not so subtle joke to get Latham to write a tool that would do that.

He didn't take the bait...yet.

Koz

I wonder about being able to do this. In order to get Skype to work, they have to defeat hardware playback during the microphone use. Further, if someone is in really bad form and trying to use a desk microphone and live speakers, Skype has to put in echo cancellation to avoid feedback. That's proba...

<<<I was wondering how many tracks can one record with Audacity?>>> 16 single mono audio channels, but that's not the trick. Audacity will record 16 tracks from one sound device . Most devices provide two tracks of audio and then appear like a second device to get the next two. Audacity will not han...

<<<See any problems with doing the plan?>>> Oh, yes. Certainly, but maybe not the way you think. Most people who write about audio systems concentrate on the upper frequencies since that's where most of the problems and magic are. Most but not all. No audio specification I know of goes below 20 Hz. ...

<<<from old cassette tapes...I have downloaded audacity 1.2.6 to my laptop.>>> Doesn't it sound a little hot and crunchy or "rough" or "fuzzy" compared to the original performance? Most laptops only have a Mic-In connection for analog audio and most tape machines only have Line-O...

Audacity does not like multiple instances running.

You should try opening up multiple Audacities on a Linux machine. You get a small mushroom cloud over the machine.

Koz