Audacity Forum

I think your file associations may be hosed. I don't know how to change that right off the top of my head, but I know how to see what's really there. Do you have View File Extensions turned on? This would be a really good time to turn it on. Finder, Preferences, Advanced, Show All File Extensions. N...

<<<This is really bizarre.>>> Right. You were going to walk in cold and save the day. So was I. It didn't work for me, either. They're going to take away both of our white hats unless we pull something out of the fire pretty quick. And all this used to work. That's the wacky part. Can you post a sho...

Not exactly. The sound level at the player headphone jack is Line Level, not Microphone Level. Switch connectors behind the computer--if you can. Maybe from Pink to Blue? Read the labels. If you have a laptop, this could be a problem. Then set the Line Input as the active connection in Windows, not ...

To get an exact match, you need to be in at least 48 KHz sample rate, 16 bis instead of 44.1 KHz and the volumes of the two performances have to match. Your ear changes things around a bit when the volume goes up and down and it's not pretty. Salespeople used to sell really cheap stereos by making t...

Sure enough. Please also note that the "flat" one is half the size of the stereo one. One is a single audio track and the other is two.

Koz

Even before I listen to it, Audacity wakes up from first birthday in Mono. You need to go into preferences to change it to stereo, and then restart Audacity.

I bet one of those files (the flat one) is going to be mono and the other stereo. I'm takin' bets.

Koz

With Audacity, you're listening to the whole pathway of input and output processing. The sound card is just shooting a live copy of the input back out to you with no processing. Welcome to the worst problem of digital audio. It used to be you could pick audio equipment with low distortion specs. Now...

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It doesn't work that way, does it?

<<<This was the case for me anyway.>>>

Just to cover the bases. do all these "successful" burns play in your car or portable CD player?

Koz

Glass monitors have very powerful electromagnets a foot or so behind the screen. Anything sensitive to stray magnetic fields, like, oh, a guitar pickup, is fare game. The problem is so powerful that many times two glass monitors placed next to each other will shimmer and shake as the two operating m...

<<<I can play the recording from the computer.>>> After you play the captured song in Audacity, you need to File, Export to WAV.. That will give you a single music file that you can apply to your burning program to produce the music CD. You can't leave that step out. Audacity will not speak to CD au...