Audacity Forum

I use a relatively inexpensive Yeti one A Yeti USB microphone. That means you will not be getting more than about 6 feet (2M) away from the computer for reliable USB. Also no hubs or splitters. Home runs only. in order to record without worrying about the sound of the fans. You're not reading for a...

It stops after 8-10 seconds. That could be Windows auto noise reduction or processing. First, Shift-Shutdown, Wait and then Start. Not regular Shutdown or regular Restart. This one is more thorough and resets more things. If the noise still happens, go into Windows settings and see if there is a se...

So the chapter 6 file is empty What does that mean? You opened up the AUP file in Audacity and it was flat-line silent? or you opened up the AUP file in Apple Textedit and there was nothing in it, the file was zero bytes? Given the troubles you have been having, you are a candidate for having someb...

noticeably different to when I actually export the file. And play it on what? Are you using the Beats headphones for all the monitoring? We can't see what you're doing, so you have to step through everything so we can follow you. What other audio programs? Is this a laptop or desktop computer? The ...

Are you using Audacity Projects? Do you have a collection of AUP files and _DATA folders? There is a recommendation that you Export WAV sound files of each raw reading before you edit it. Can you go back to the WAV files and re-edit? Is there any indication why it crashed? Are you using iCloud servi...

After that, it works fine.

Forever? Or next time you have to go through all that again?

Needing to run Audacity as Super User is not working fine. It's dangerous.

Koz

playback sounds grainy and muffled When listening on what? normal audio file using Voice Recorder and they both sounded perfect. When listening on what? I can try to get an audio recording of the playback Don't try to help it. Listen and make sure it sounds bad, drag-select a 10 second chunk of it ...

have not found a solution.

We haven't found a good one, either.

Can you roll the machine back pre-Catalina? Did you come from Mojave?

Koz

Noise gate does not have a good history. As far as I know, I'm the only human that experimented with both Noise Reduction and Noise Gate. Everybody always goes for the one-button solution. Mastering Suite removes rumble and adjusts performance volume variations, Noise Reduction cleans background no...

my Mountainbike videos Did you put the Teflon strip between the tire and tube? Turns out one of the connectors to the Los Angeles Bike Path goes through an oil field. I'm not making that up. In that oil field grows a version of bougainvillea that can fight back. The thorns took out two regular tire...