Audacity Forum

Export the project as one single WAV file. File, Export as WAV... Does that file play OK? Projects are magic. Projects are complicated XML files, picture, and effects clips all pointing at the original MP3 files, which had to be decoded from the original clip in order to be edited at all. If you did...

<<<The scary thing is that your sound cards keep breaking?>>> That's not scary. I don't think that's correct. I think if you went back and plugged one of the old sound cards into a different slot in place of the current one, it would start working. The actual symptom (extrapolating now) is "Eve...

That may not work too well anyway. The sound level between those two is very different. The sound level at the speaker output will blow the pants off the electronics at the microphone input. Buzzy Sound City. If you can't figure out the two Windows Sound Panels (s'OK. I can't either.), then you are ...

Can you post ten or twenty seconds of it somewhere that we can hear it? If you've been through the usual suspects then there may be something else wrong. You're recording the record silent, right? The room is completely silent while you're recording the track? Does the record sound OK before you rec...

Buy extension cables and move the switch point to the front. Everything I ever read suggests strongly that you plug USB audio devices into the second port. The only other way I can think of that might work is to switch the devices in OS-X. Apple, System Preferences, Sound, Input. If both devices do ...

Audacity will open both, but the missing step is converting anything to AIFF. For that you need QuickTime Pro which has export and translation tools. There may be a way to do that in iTunes, but I was never comfortable with how that works.

Koz

On #5, again maybe I don't understand the question, but if you save a project instead of exporting a clip, that project XML file should let you undo yourself all the way back to the original clips.

Koz

We really are going to need to hear some of this. Pick a representative minute/half minute long clip and post the WAV/MP3 somewhere we can get to it. Send along the URL.

Koz

The input window/selector has always been a little optimistic IMHO. You really need to select the sound pathway and volume with the Operating System Tools. In Mac, it's under System Preferences, Sound. On Windows, it's the sound mixer in all its different forms--double click on the speaker icon. In ...

Just to cover this, I would delete all the Audacity files and folders and re-install like this: Create a folder called Audacity on your desktop and drag it into your /Applications folder (you may have to authorize it). Everything that has to do with Audacity will now be installed into this folder; A...