Audacity Forum

At what point does the error occur? Is it when you try to run the installation or when you try to run Audacity after installation? Please give detailed step by step instructions and quote any error messages exactly.

Gale Andrews wrote:unless someone else here does ...

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Sorry, no ideas from me either. Hopefully one of the developers will recognise the problem.

... but if I try to change the material to 96khz in Audacity, it shrinks the song to less than half length and I turn into the Chipmunks. The problem there is that you are not converting the audio to a new sample rate. You are just forcing the track to play at an increased speed (so that there are ...

This article on Wikipedia may help to give an overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio

kelloggdental wrote:What would you set them at? Maybe I didn't try all the combinations.

Difficult to say without knowing what the options/combinations are.

wmichqb14 wrote:I am getting the same error:

Ensure that you have downloaded "Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7: Audacity 1.3.14 installer" from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows

I'm not aware of any audio software that can distinguish the difference between a verse and a chorus.

On Vista (and Windows 7) you probably need to set the recording level in the Windows Control Panel. It is a common problem on these operating systems that the recording level in the Windows Control Panel needs to be set very low (around 0.1). I don't use either of these operating systems myself, but...

toto56 wrote: Audacity-1.3.14 cannot be compiled with ffmpeg-0.9 :

Correct. See the "Linux/Unix" section in this FAQ: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... Ins#ffdown

What follows is a bit of an over-simplification, but I hope it gives you an idea of what is happening. Digital audio is represented as a series of numbers called "samples". If the "sample rate" is 44100 Hz, then there are 44100 samples each second and these form the "wavefor...