Audacity Forum

Didn't I answer this on another segment of the forum? Please don't double post. It makes this a lot harder than it needs to be.

Koz

You are probably trying to open up a music file of a type that Audacity doesn't understand. Mystery Compressions always play like they're on fire. You need to convert the file to something Audacity understands with one of the fine free Windows conversion programs out there. If you're on a Mac, Quick...

<<<Thank you, Koz, for bearing with me on this.>>> I'm concerned that I can't just wave my Wii-Wand and have the problem go away. This is the kind of problem that the Windows people have. I'm going to be missing on and off because I'm trying to plug the holes in my house before it starts raining Tue...

<<<My virus protector is AVG 7.5 free version.>>> Sometimes, virus protection can cause problems like this. Try, as a very temporary measure, disconnecting your internet, disable AVG, and try the capture again. <<<goes and stays all jumbled (out of synch??). >>> Is there any way for you to post a sm...

One more. If you do try to File > Exit, do you get the "Save Changes Before Exiting? dialog box?

Koz

<<<Thanks! Please e-mail replies to my username at hotmail dot com if you don't mind.>>> We do mind. We're here to serve everybody who reads the forum. Valuable answers should stay searchable on the forum in case anybody else has the same problem. If I do manage to solve your problem, you'll be back...

<<<0.5db, and the beginning of the next segment was 0.1db.>>> A few nomenclature rules are in order. The default Audacity timeline isn't in dB (decibels), it's in percent. Video may work pretty well like that, but audio doesn't. Change your timeline with the little black down arrow on the left and s...

You do the Ctrl=Alt=Del thing and the panel says "Program Not Responding," right?

Koz

No, it means you can start a recording and come back in 69 hours to stop it. Then you can move the data to an external hard drive for safe keeping and do it all again. I personally wouldn't go that far because you do run into a lot of other problems with a show that long, but that refers to availabl...

<<<Help is appreciated.>>>

I bet you'd get a lot more help and faster over on the 1.3.x Windows forum. If you have trouble with 1.2.x, I'm your man.

Koz