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Koz

But they're all on Catalina 10.15.x?

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I need to shift machines for a second.

Koz

digital voice mail recordings So you just forwarded them to an email on your MBP? The system kept strongly suggesting email when I tried to transfer sound files. I was recording much longer passages in VoiceMemo and MusicMemo with the idea I was going to produce a book. Managing the files— after I ...

So there's nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't work. This is where you start digging out details. Which machine is it? I'm typing on a 2016 Mac Mini. I got the SSD, did you? It is written somewhere important that we're supposed to ask you if you've restarted your machine. I rarely Restart. Apple >...

Do you record the start of the show that happened seven seconds ago, or does it record in sorta-real time and just cuts off seven seconds of show? Super good to know that. Desktop > Go (top of page) > Utility Monitor. That should put an analysis window up. See if any service, device or app goes nuts...

A quick note. You should consider very strongly not upgrading to MacOS Catalina (the latest version at this writing). Catalina does not support Audacity with the grace and speed you've come to expect. Audacity can be forced to work, but it's not pretty. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f...

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Koz

From fuzzy memory, Noise Removal used to treat silences different from performance sounds. You could almost always hear it working if you knew when to listen. Noise Reduction treats everything the same and in gentle application is all but undetectable on the job. And that brings us to a recent disco...

periodically has these awful noises in it. Yes, that's P Popping as above. You can back away from the microphone. Recommended spacing is one Hawaiian Shaka with no blast filter. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/HawaiianShakaSpacing-NoScreen-500t.jpg Or add the pop and blast filter and use one...

This is what it looks like on my machine. This should get you going. Go (top of desktop) > Utilities > Terminal Type or copy/paste the blue parts from his posting, and then press your Return key. Screen Shot 2019-12-15 at 8.34.29.png Use copy from his posting. The line is rough to simple type and yo...