Audacity 1.2 may not be able to deal with these jobs. Audacity 1.2 will not be able to deal with these jobs. To decode the audio from a DVD with Audacity you will need to install FFMpeg, and this is only supported by Audacity 1.3 (1.3.13 is recommended). If the DVDs are home made, then you should b...
MP3 is a "lossy" format. When audio is encoded as MP3 there is a small but non-recoverable loss of sound quality as some of the audio data is discarded during the encoding. The losses can be minimised by encoding with a high bit-rate, but there will always be some loss of sound quality. Se...
I was recording and burning for a couple of days... And it was all working correctly? What exactly was your set-up when you did that? (lots of detail please - paint a picture with all the connections and part numbers and colours and everything ;) ) Perhaps we can go back to that set-up and troubles...
"Distortion" is caused when you let Windows apply its (automatic) noise cancellation. If you switch off the (Windows) noise cancellation, then you can use the Audacity Noise Removal effect to manually reduce the noise level. This may give you a slightly better result as you are than able t...
I'm a bit concerned with yet another effect to try and get your noise removed whereas most software only has one effect. How many controls does noise coring have? I never tried the patch. It's still quite early days for the Noise Coring effect. Currently there are 4 controls, two of which set the &...
It looks like a driver problem to me. That site is broadcasting in mono, so when recording as a stereo track in Audacity, you should have identical left and right channels (both like the left channel in your picture). When recording as mono you should get a single channel (the same as the left chann...
Could you post a screenshot of the spectrum (Analyze > Plot Spectrum), or alternatively, add a short sample (just a couple of seconds) as a WAV file to your reply. Files (less than 1 MB) can be attached to your post (see "Upload Attachment" below the compose message box).