Audacity Forum

the number one request

What's number two?

Koz

Could this be as simple as restarting Audacity? Audacity checks for new devices when it starts, so if you open things in the wrong order, headphones and microphones may be invisible.

Also see: Transport > Rescan...

Koz

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html I make a distinction between Simple Overdubbing and Perfect Overdubbing. Perfect Overdubbing is when you can hear yourself in real time in perfect mix with the backing tracks as you perform. That almost always takes spe...

Which Audio CD Authoring and Burning program are you using? There has to be one—not just a burner.

You have to be able to rearrange your music files different from alphabetic order and choose the number of seconds between songs.



Koz

Audacity runs at 32-bit Floating internally and I believe you can't stop it. Further, Audacity doesn't have Clip INFO , so you can't use it to tell you the condition of a sound clip. Regardless of what's on the timeline, you should be Exporting to WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit . That's the format of sound ...

it was trying move but held back at the left end of the track. That's the wrong metaphor. That's what it looks like when the data arriving at Audacity is damaged or missing. The cursor gets a brief kick or push forward and then falls back. semi professional mixer. That's when the client only pays h...

Restart the machine and make sure nothing else starts.

If you don't absolutely need the network connection, turn it off. Kill the WiFi if you have it running.

Koz

Don't change anything after you start the long job.

Koz

That microphone is desk mounted. The ideal announcing distance is about a Hawaiian shaka. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/HawaiianShakaSpacing-NoScreen-500t.jpg You can push the microphone up with books to get it closer to your face. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MicBookTowel-500t.jpg In...

Thanks for the clip. That gives us a good push when we're trying to figure out what's wrong. There are really tiny portions of the voice that are just missing. Little holes in the show. That can happen when the computer is trying to do two (or more) things at once. As a first level fix, restart the ...