Audacity Forum

That's because you were recording the microphone. Mac Laptops have a built-in microphone and it's the default audio input.

Apple, System Preferences, Hardware, Sound, Input. Select Line In (assuming that's where you plugged the mixer). That connects you to the 1/8" analog audio input.

Koz

<<<Finally, with normalize, is there a standard setting in order to get to whatever the volume is for commercial CDs?>>> Red Book standard "VU" level for music CDs is -17 or about -10 digital peak. Modern CDs ignore that completely and press music at whatever level they feel. I have dance ...

<<<Is it possible to program audacity to stop recording after some time? >>> Stable Audacity has no timers. That's one of the feature requests. <<<Don't think so, I am running on NTFS file system, 4gb file limit is cause by Fat32 file system.>>> Perfectly correct, however, what happens if you run an...

<<<Hi everyone, i'm new to Mac>>>

And to the forum. I personally would have started a new thread. The only people who are going to see this post are the people who follow someone else's post all the way to the end.

Koz

The coordination between the Audacity sound control banner and the real world sometimes isn't the best. That's also why sometimes a setting will not "take" until you restart the program.

Koz

And the engineering reason for that is in the design of the socket. A three conductor mini-plug contacts the tip and ring with opposing spring contacts inside the female connector. The shield has no spring contact, it's only connection is through the friction of the person pushing in the plug--and f...

<<<BTW, there is also a recovery tool for Audacity temp files>>> No there isn't. Not unless you can specifically point to it and tell us you have personally gotten it to work. None of this, "my cousin knows somebody" business. If Audacity thinks it has crashed before properly closing its t...

Are we talking about the same program? Audacity recording meters (the red ones) are digital peak meters. They go from -50 or so on the left to digital zero on the right which is the first place the system distorts. Anything below zero is fair game. If you do manage to hit zero, you have permanently ...

I just made a simple recording, pressed pause, made a sandwich, then pressed pause again and continued to record. no breaks.

Did I do something you didn't do? I think all the Audacity versions work like this.

Koz

<<<immediately noticed a low, electronic hum.>>> Immediately? Or when you went to capture the performance in the computer? Plug good quality headphones into the recorder on batteries (alone) and listen in a quiet room. Is it still noisy? There is a temptation to power USB electronics and interface s...