Audacity Forum

Steve: Thanks for the continued help. I just burned a bunch of songs with Chris at default setting except I chose .98 amplitude on the output rather than .99. I am generally happy with the results except for one song. It still plays noticeably louder than the other 32. The other 32 do not differ not...

I agree about reading instructions--I had not done it. But I have now, and am not entirely clear on them--or at least I don't understand all the options such as floor, hardness, etc. But I am trying a new burn with default setting (.5 compression) and we'll see how it goes. I have never attempted ba...

Steve: Thanks for the comment. I may or may not try again. I had not seen the note you posted. I did find it curious that the standalone version has a max setting of 1.0, while the Audacity version extends to 1.25. I assumed going from 1.0 to 1.25 would just be more of the same. Inferring from your ...

Steve: Yes, I am using the standard 16 bit, 44100 setting throughout. Since my post, I did more testing with these results. This is just an FYI and may be no surprise to any of you. The Audacity plug in version works without incident on Windows 7. However, I am discarding it for the following reason...

See my long post in a thread with this title, very close to this thread:


Cannot Record via Onboard Audio in Windows 7

Record what?

A bird chirping on your window sill?

A bird chirping in a video that you are viewing on a web site?

A bird chirping on an old audio cassette tape you haven't listened to in 10 years?

More details needed.

What can't you record? Anything at all? Or can't you record "what you hear"? Did you right click in the recording tab of control panel/sound and make sure that disabled devices are shown? Windows 7 sound has been deliberately changed to make it difficult for you to record "what you hear", but it can...

Do you hear the wa wa when simply playing the tape--when Audacity is not even running?

Or do you hear it ONLY in an Audacity recording?

More info: Playing the individual compressed tracks directly from my HD rather than from a burn gives a slightly different result. The songs still play through in about 14 seconds, but the elapsed time indicator in Media Player Classic progresses quickly from zero to the full 3 minutes length, rathe...

The other day I burned 5 CDs. Each CD contained the same 27 songs and each was burned with the same program--ImgBurn with the same batch of CD-Rs (Taiyo Yuden) at the same speed (16x). The burns were just intended to be tests of Chris's Compressor and WaveGain. Two of the 5 CDs contained the 27 song...