Audacity Forum

<<<I am trying to record music.>>>

Thank you. Now we need the left-brain engineering version of that. I connected a wire.....?

Koz

Yeah, that's a little harder to do on a Mac. I use WireTap Pro which I see has magically turned itself into WireTap Studio.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/

Koz

Preference changes don't "stick" until you restart Audacity.

Koz

<<<I'm trying to recording me singing over background music in Audacity>>>

How are you listening to the track while you sing?

Koz

<<<I have read nothing but good reviews on line for them and they are cheap as heck.>>> It's possible to design vacuum tube circuitry that is well behaved and stable, but the "cheap as heck" part doesn't give me a good feeling. You can certainly just use it until it starts doing funny thin...

<<<<impulse convolver effect>>>

I couldn't find that one in my effects listings. Maybe I have a different version?

Koz

Two possibilities, none of them particularly good. Somebody over on the Mac side found a program that you could use to collect them; <<<Fission by Rogue Amoeba seems to be the only option. It will not grab all the files automatically, but it does allow you to drag and drop the files from the Audacit...

No. Noise Removal's job is to take out the low rumble or air conditioning noise behind or underneath a voice performance. You want Click Removal, which will turn out to be really named Click and Pop Removal. Select a large segment of the music and apply the filter moving the sliders to see what they...

I suppose we need to find out what you're trying to do. You didn't say.

I can't record......what?

Which version of Audacity?

Koz

Audacity doesn't like to play all music formats. If you try to play some of the oddball formats, like Apple AAC (iPod), the song will play very rapidly.

That's why it's happening. I don't know enough about the Windows tools to tell you how to convert. Something inside Windows Media?

Koz