Audacity Forum

I'm wondering what that "vacuum cleaner" sound in the background is. Could it be your computer fans?

openclosed wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:04 pm

the problem is the program I'm editing with (adobe premiere) automatically pulls one channel of audio and doesn't see the second channel at all

Perhaps the last post in this Adobe forum thread will help: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2055630

Yes that's bizarre. Another bizarre thing is that there's no recording device showing. Does this have anything to do with the automatic-gain-control you were making? (https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=354648#p354648) Also strange how your version of Audacity looks like it's running on W...

What is your "playback device"? Is it your Mac's built-in sound card?

I think that to get all the features you want, you will need a "transcription player" that is designed specifically for that job. Audacity is primarily designed to be an audio recorder and editor, not an audio player, and not a transcription audio player. Google comes up with some options ...

USB turntables usually produce about the right signal level without any adjustment, though I have heard of problems with some 12" DJ mixes, which can be extremely loud and overload the USB converter. What does your signal level look like? (Look at the meters at the top of the main Audacity inte...

R/N wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:53 pm

When I am using this program with Windows 10. I would like to work on this program offline.

Which program are you talking about?

I recently copied a fair few .wav files from the Lacie external hard drive onto a pen drive Pick one of the files, and look at the full file name (including the filename extension) and file size. What is the full name and file size on the Lacie drive? What is the full name and file size on the pen ...

pacmap wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 04, 2019 2:42 pm

"Input Volume Unavailable

That's normal for USB devices, as they do not generally provide programmable control of the recording gain. Are you using a USB audio device? If so, which one?

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