Audacity Forum

kozikowski wrote: I vote for one of the other elves to check in. There are magic processes to follow to recover Audacity from bad effects and plugins.

I'm not a Mac Elf, but there are some magical incantations for Mac OS X here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audio ... ch_or_hang

After "fixing" the track with the Nyquist script, it is possible that some parts may be over 0 dB, so use the Normalize effect and normalize to -1 dB.

One approach would be to import the audio file (File menu > Import > Audio)
Select the part that you want to keep and then "File menu > Export")

There is also a Vinyl effect in the "LADSPA Plug-in Pack" http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins

I'm not sure what more I can tell you.
Try the steps in this post again: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 46#p197946
Until you are able to export a WAV file and find where you have exported it to, we can't go any further.

Edgar wrote:We have a piece of hardware in the studio which automatically detects the silence between tracks on a tape, record, CD or other input and splits it into separate tracks

How often does that give "false positives" (splits where there shouldn't be splits)?

So far, no one has mentioned that version 0.1 creates far more labels than the Silence Finder or Sound Finder.

I've always presumed it was done that way to provide a lead-in ( 2 secs ? ) prior to the "song" starting . So are you saying that: For point labels, there needs to be an option to select "where" within the detected region the label should go? Edgar suggested that "in the mi...

I've always presumed it was done that way to provide a lead-in ( 2 secs ? ) prior to the "song" starting . I presume so to. So really it is "marking before a sound". I (and Bill IIRC) thimk thaere are easier and more accurate ways of placing labels for the start of LP tracks. Yo...

The problem seems to be more about using Windows 7 than about using Audacity.
Do you know anyone that has Windows 7 that could help you in person?