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I'm sorry, Steve, but waxcylinder did advise on how to record Spotify. Waxcylinder wrote: "See this tutorial from the Manual:" The introduction (highlighted in blue) at the top of that page clearly states: Copyright or web site restrictions may prevent you recording or distributing materi...

It's not a behaviour that I like, but that is how it is designed to work. http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/help/manual/man/audio_tracks.html#mute The behaviour has been this way since at least Audacity 1.3.8 and allegedly: "Standard" will suit those used to mixing desks and other prof...

Note waxcylinder's careful wording. We don't advise on how to record Spotify, (or iPlayer, or any other copyright material). Many people want to record sounds that are playing on their computer for perfectly legal reasons and we can offer help in how to do that. Personally, I cringe when I see quest...

The smallest "time unit" for digital audio is the sample period. When mixing multiple streams the sample rates need to match, or be converted to a common sample rate for the output. For large time periods it is acceptable to represent time as a floating point value as any error in "ti...

If you extrapolate into the equation the known criticisms of Envelope Tool as being "too fiddly" (some of which criticisms are I am sure not addressable in a GUI envelope because it would dumb it down too much), then I think there is a strong case for text envelope. If it is not ready to ...

See here: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/a ... swer=58134

I don't think that I said that USB is inherently unreliable, so apologies if I gave that impression. What I have said is that USB is notorious for not being reliable with streaming audio (or video). I use a USB interface for audio recording and playback on a daily basis and it is extremely reliable ...

Maybe you did not see my post but I have not yet received a reply. No, sorry I missed that one. I've now posted a reply. Portaudio should be able to "handle" any valid bit format that you throw at it, but the bit format that is sent from Portaudio to Audacity is not necessarily the same a...

Does the 16 bit PortAudio limitation apply when the ADC is an external box, as in my case? As far as I'm aware the limitation applies to any kind of sound card on Windows when using the version of Portaudio that Audacity currently uses when using Windows drivers. 24 bit capture is, as far as I'm aw...

Just so that there is no confusion regarding the last comment - here is the virus report from 41 ant-virus scans of the current, recommended Audacity installer, downloaded from the Audacity web site : SHA256: 1a15cbc8ce2a93cec9b6cfbd403fcadac8821707b93d757c0b7c7339f4b61aac File name: audacity-win-2....