Audacity Forum

What is the sound?
What's the context of your question, is it for a theatrical production?

Where did you get the ODM files from? Are they e-book that you bought? If so, have you contacted the retailer and told them that you can't open them?

Is the echo on the actual recording, or just in your headphones when you are monitoring the recording? Is it a discrete echo (echo, echo, echo) or a "reverberation" (eccchooo)? Does the echo repeat several times or just once? If the echo is only when you are monitoring the recording, how a...

Do you have recording inputs showing up in ALSA mixer?

(to open ALSA mixer, open a terminal window and type alsamixer)

MontanaRed wrote:Unfortunately the ODM (which is really a WMA)...

If that is true, then just change the file extension to .wma and you should have no trouble opening it in most modern media players. However, I doubt that is the case.

Have you checked the OverDrive help page?
http://help.overdrive.com/

I am using windows vista and a focusrite 6 usb with 2 inputs and 4 outputs. As DVDdoug mentioned, for using a typical recording microphone you need to have an XLR input socket with (nominal 48 v) phanthom power. I've used one of these for many years and considering it's very low price, the sound qu...

Audacity is a multi-track audio production tool. Audio clips may be in the same or different audio tracks. If you want audio segments to overlap, they need to be in separate tracks. if the audio segments are in sequence without overlapping, they may be in separate or the same audio track (whichever ...

The mixer should probably show a level on it's meters close to 0 dB peak.
The recording level will also need to be set in the Windows Sound settings. See here for how to access the Windows sound settings: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... es#vistacp

1> Microphone: Samson C01U USB condenser 2> Computer: MAC OS X version 10.4.11 3> Recording Software: Audacity 2.0.1 No speakers are connected There is an echo doing recording. To send a forum reply, click on the "POST REPLY" button that is top left of the posts. Look in the Transport men...

You can zoom in or out horizontally. You can also zoom in vertically by left-clicking on the vertical ruler near the left end of the track, and zoom out by right clicking in the same place: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/help/manual/man/zooming.html The track can be resized vertically by clic...