Audacity Forum

autordesk wrote:Hi, I would love a copy of this alpha release also.

Thank you!

The alpha release is no longer relevant. You are replying to a post that is over 6 months old. That alpha version has been superseded by Audacity 2.0 which is available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Well the sound quality is not very good, even after applying RIAA equalization, but it's not clipped, so we seem to have narrowed down the clipping problem to the ADC (Analogue Digital Converter) or the phono pre-amp. What seems to be happening is that after being amplified through the built-in phon...

Could you give more detail.
Which version of Audacity? Which effect(s)? What settings are you using? Is this issue repeatable?

Hmm, strange. Something that you can try that may help to diagnose the problem: It's possible to make a "portable" version of Audacity that will run (albeit sluggishly) of a USB stick or other location. Download the ZIP version of Audacity from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/window...

ItzMe wrote:To judge WAV files quality, best player is MS-Windows build-in tiny program: sndrec32.exe

"best player" is a bold claim. In what way is it better than say Foobar2000, SoX, VAC, APlay, Herrie, afplay, or any other non-bloatware player?

I presume that you are aware that it is Windows that is creating the "Error" message and not Audacity. When you import a file or record, the audio data is (by default) saved in the Audacity temporary folder. You can check the location of that folder by looking in "Edit > Preferences >...

YOU DID NOT LISTEN TO ME!!! I CANNOT RUN THE VST FIRST BECAUSE IT WILL REMOVE WHAT I WANT TO KEEP!!! AND YOUR METHOD SWICHES ALL THE AUDIO!!! NOT JUST THE SELECTED REGION!!! READ WHAT I TYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Typing all in upper case is considered to be "shouting", thus "r...

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P.S. For video and especially for PowerPoint type presentations it is always worth testing the disk on other computers - preferably test on Win XP, Win 7, Vista, Mac OSX and Linux. For Windows only, Powerpoint has a feature to make a standalone package: After you have saved the powerpoint show (*.pp...

Also would the marker not be hearing it as she does not have the program installed on her computer? They may be using a different version of PowerPoint. Microsoft are notorious for bringing out new versions of programs that produce files that do not open properly in older versions. Alternatively yo...