Audacity Forum

I would have posted this on the Windows section of the forum because the answer changes a lot depending on the machine. Let's assume Windows. You can set the Windows sound panels to record from all the inputs at the same time. Microphone, Line-In, CD, etc. This can cause problems if you leave some o...

<<<Any suggestions for a beginner are MUCH appreciated. >>> I would personally have posted this in the Mac section of the forum and I would have found you yesterday. If you set everything to record the built-in microphone, does it? Reassign recording to the Mac line input and press record (turn the ...

<<<spacebar start or stop playback>>> It does. It stops playback and starts it up again at the beginning of the selection. You probably want it to Pause playback. <<<as in every other media-software.>>> Except Audition and Cool Edit which work exactly like Audacity. The "P" button will pau...

H, and welcome to Vista!

Ther is a whole wiki devoted to this:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

Koz

If both performances have good blue waveforms and both have bouncing playback lights, then the show is probably OK. At the risk of an overly simplistic answer, did you have the playback volume turned down? There is one more very exotic problem that crops up here and there. Download the "Left-Ri...

<<<I kind of have the same problem .....>>> Actually, he has an unstable machine. You have your sound panel set up wrong. There is a setting where Windows tries to send it's playback back to Audacity's input leading to screeching feedback. Audacity should be recording from the microphone input (you)...

<<<I searched and found nothing with Teamspeex.>>> I searched and couldn't figure out what Teamspeex was. Even Wikipedia had trouble. You need software that can "skim" or "borrow" an active audio bitstream in both directions. Audacity won't do that on a Mac. You need something li...

Sometimes an install of Audacity will reassign the playback audio as well as the record. Reset in the Mac sound panels. Apple, Preferences, Sound, Output Make sure the volume control is up. Did your iTunes drop dead, too? How about the little "poit" that happens when you change volume? The...

<<<More info would help wouldnt it.>>> I admit it was all I could do to avoid posting a riff on your post. "I"m not recording in a tin can, I'm recording in a cereal box and the sound is just all wrong. You will become very familiar with the Windows Sound Control Panels which controls this...

Before you get too throw-uppy over the technical explanation, it happens to me, too. I pull a really short 48000/16/2 sound file into 1.2.5 and change the key from E to F and the duration of the show changes. It's different depending on which two keys and which direction, but I never end up with the...