Audacity Forum

1.2.5

Koz

<<<after exporting my music>>>

More English words.

Export as what? What are you playing the work on? Given this forum title, which kind of computer are you on?

QuickTime Player, iTunes, Windows Media?

Give us a push.

Koz

You kind of left us in the dirt there. You can't easily "back up" from an iPod. You have to sync your iPod with your iTunes account and then get the tunes from there. There are no convenient export functions in iTunes, so you have to copy which will likely give you Apple's AAC audio compre...

D'Oh!

Koz

I can help a tiny bit. When you're at work. launch Audacity, apply sound to the computer and then carefully click once inside the red record meters. The meters should wake up and start bouncing along with the music. That's Audacity monitor mode. That lets you test things and set levels before you ma...

The Normalize tool finds the loudest peak of a show and changes the loudness of the whole show until that peak goes where you told it to. That's not what most people mean when they say Normalize. They want all the parts of a performance to end up the same volume like an AM radio station. That need t...

Windows has two sound panels--or it used to, and the function has been take up by other settings. The upshot is Play and Record are different and you can have one perfectly balanced and the other completely off. For example, you can turn down the microphone in the Record panel so it's not as loud in...

The MP3 tracks do play OK in stand-alone QuickTime Player, right, and they import into iTunes?

Koz

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000H3ATTC/themussou02197635-20 At that price point, this is just a few simple components to keep all the telephone voltages from killing you and whatever sound is on the wires in each direction, that's what you get. You may run into another problem even if yo...

You want it to sound like Dr. Laura when a guest calls in, right? Both sides loud and clear and perfectly coordinated?. That's not cheap. She's using a telephone hybrid or Phone Tap back at the studio and doing the individual volume controls in a mixing console with an engineer. The cheap fixes from...