Audacity Forum

MP3 and WMV are both "lossy" formats - they discard some of the data so as to make the file size smaller. Convert a WMV file to an MP3 in order to separate the audio from the video. Some sound quality loss here due to encoding as MP3 Open the MP3 in Audacity and do the necessary editing. E...

audstune wrote:Is there a way to prevent "peak overloading" on the phone line? Is there something I can do on my end?

How are you recording it? (please be expansive and detailed - too much information is better than not enough).

Does the problem also occur if you export as WAV?

1> When I save the recored LP as a .WAV file and pla it back on Window (Vista) Media Player there is no sound? When you "Save" in Audacity it creates an "Audacity Project" that only Audacity can use. To create a normal audio file you need to "Export". See here: http://...

Audacity 2.0.1 is currently in RC2. Assuming that there are no major hold ups the release should be in July. It will be announced on the forum (Announcement at the top of each section as here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=46 ) and also on the main web site: http://audacityteam.org/ ...

You seem to be suggesting that if you wish to use Audacity and Win7 then you need a 64 bit system. I have not seen this limitation in the Audacity Wiki recommendations for Win7 as per the cut below:- Audacity does not require a 64 bit system. It is a 32 bit program so it is (or should be) quite hap...

There is no "light" version of Audacity.
For Windows Vista you want "Audacity 2.0 installer (.exe file, 19.8 MB, including help files)" from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

Magistern wrote: when removing overflowing files from my computer, I saw them all again

You saw what again? You saw your records? You saw Audacity Projects? You saw WAV files? You saw MP3 files?

Do I just EXPORT the whole thing and it does it automatically? Good guess. Yes it does. Check that the whole thing plays correctly and does not "clip" (distort) before you export. When multiple tracks play together the overall level increases so it may be necessary to reduce the track lev...

Glad you got it fixed serpentoso.
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