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how did you find that awesome place with a view of what looks like Malibu Other direction. I'm just north of Santa Monica—in the hills—looking south. That's Santa Monica Bay and that lump behind the palm is Palos Verdes. The almost invisible lump to the right of that is Catalina Island—famous in so...

Record a 20 second sound test according to this:

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Test ... _Clip.html

And post it on the forum. Sometimes descriptions aren't enough.

Koz

We've been assuming you have microphone or system problems. Were you hand-holding your phone outside? That's not easy. Any wind at all will show up as rumbling, thumping or popping. If you're not careful, each tiny movement of your hands will arrive as a shuffling or shishing noise. If you have all ...

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If Audacity doesn't close right, it can leave pieces behind.

Koz

how often do you actually need to see the dB scale?

Every time we have to explain to someone that the meters and waveforms are measuring the same thing two different ways, one of which nobody else uses.

Koz

I did a frequency analysis. Analyze > Plot Spectrum. There are very minor tonal distribution differences between the MP2 version and the ordinary stereo mixdown. The most important difference is the MP2 only has tones up to 16,631Hz and the mix from the front two has tones up to 18,300Hz. So your do...

I personally find it difficult to judge

I can't hear any difference.

Koz

Is anyone able to help me on this, or is this just a bug? Neither one. This is the longer WAV extension. Normal WAV files cut you off at 2GB. Special extended ones will get you out to 4GB. If you open a longer one in a very old player, it may fail. I have sound recorders which will insist on 2GB un...

Double click the ZIP file and it should open into the regular files you bought. It's possible it may ask you for a password. That's between you and them, but normally, it just explodes into regular, ordinary content. ZIP is handy because it can be used to group several files and folders into one &qu...

Right-Click, or Control+Click one of the bad files > Get INFO. When the INFO panel opens, Shift+Command+4 and draw a box around the panel. include down to Open With: That will make a capture picture on your desktop. Scroll down from a forum text window > Attachments > Add Files. Screen Shot 2019-10-...