Audacity Forum

one it waits for noise to start recording, not just start recording ? When recording with WASAPI loopback, there needs to be an active audio stream for Audacity to record. It does not need to be noise, it can be pure silence, but it has to be an active data stream. That's how Microsoft designed WAS...

Thanks. I doubt that the popping in the recording are due to thermal effects as these pops are clear patterns of numeric data. It does not seem to be what you suggested i did a few more then 100 samples due to the spike not being 1 big spike ( picture below ) along with the .txt. It could still be d...

Before you go further, I'd suggest that you test your CDs in another CD player just in case it's the CD player that won't play a gapless CDR smoothly. If it's not that, my recommendation would be to use a better CD burning program. Most modern CD burners can make gapless CDs without the need to matc...

USB devices can sometimes lose sync if their connection is momentarily disrupted, causing the kind of distortion that you have in that file. Some tips to make that less likely: * Ensure that the USB cable has some slack and is not stretched between computer and mic * Use a reasonable quality USB cab...

Bibblyboy wrote:how do I figure out what's causing this so next time it doesn't happen?

Unfortunately there are lots of possibilities.
Were you recording from a USB device?

In the device toolbar, set the "host" to MME, set the recording input to the USB device, set the playback device to your speakers, and enable "Software Playthrough" near the bottom of the Transport menu.

All I want is to send a signal to Audacity as if the record button was clicked. Audacity is very much a GUI application. Interacting with it from another application is not simple. One way that can work is to use a third party app such as AutoHotKey or AutoKey to emulate key/mouse actions. The othe...

The "best" way is probably to use a different program for recording. For example, SoX http://sox.sourceforge.net/

I'd suggest that you start with Audacity. If nothing else, you will learn a lot about some basic tools of audio visualization. Another (free) program you could try is Sonic Visualizer http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ Beyond that you're probably looking at highly specialised (and very expensive) audio...

The "high quality" setting works best for relatively small changes, and has specific advantages that it does not have the echoey artefacts that make the "standard" setting useless for percussive instruments, and also the benefit that the length is more or less exact. However, as ...