Audacity Forum

Mac computers do not have the capability built in to directly record what is playing on the computer. You need to use third party software such as Soundflower: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... n_mac.html

For ClipFix there is the additional problem that it has to accurately detect where the clipping occurs as well as fixing it. "Repair" does not need to do that because it assumes that you have selected the damage. For "digital" clipping where peaks are cut off absolutely flat Clip...

Find one of the beeps in the recording, select it by clicking and dragging the mouse across the waveform so that you select the beep and 1 or 2 seconds of audio either side, then use "File menu > Export Selection" and export the selected audio in WAV format. Attach the exported file to you...

Then went to open file, and located .aup file in documents and clicked on it, but my hour glass just whirled and whirled and when audacity wouldn't respond I had to force a close again. Try leaving it to whirl for an hour and see if an error message comes up eventually. I suspect that Audacity is u...

Please use more words. Audacity is not a switch - it is not an on/off thing. What are you doing and what is happening?

I don't see how Audacity can have any affect on your system whatsoever when Audacity is not running, so what exactly do you mean?

Not wanting to sound negative, but in most cases vocal removal either does not work, or sounds dreadful. Having said that, there are some suggestions about how to attempt vocal removal here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Vocal_Removal If vocal removal fails (as it probably will), have a look on ...

green_meep wrote:Here are sample regular and db waveforms, respectively, if they help:

Your recording level looks ideal.

See here for some thoughts about processing that you may want to apply after recording: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Perhaps the file is too big for your player?

Effect menu > Repeat (about 3/4 of the way down the list) http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/repeat.html