Audacity Forum

I've had a message from one of the Mac users on this forum who tells me that surround sound on Mac is magical and little documented. It should work through the S/PDIF (Optical Digital connection) connector on a modern Mac but he's never tried it as he don't have an external Dolby AC3 decoder with S/...

is it having 2 audacity software in my laptop effecting this? i installed 1.2 and 1.3 That shouldn't be a problem. Does the problem occur with both versions of Audacity? (I'm guessing "yes"). The problem seems to be that your sound card is happy to record, or to playback, but not happy ab...

Same problem using OSX.5.8, only after saving the project to the desktop, what then? At some point you have to save it as a WAV file, right? And I get the same "Cannot export to Volumes/Audacity/1.3.1.3" Export it somewhere that you can write. Where do you normally put your music files? (...

When i play it, or the test file i made in audacity wheres i say front left and so on to each channel the three front ones works great but the back speakers dosent sound at all in quicktime and in VLC they are heared trough the front ones. It sounds like there is a set-up problem for your surround ...

If you use Windows than you can only record from one USB microphone at a time.

I've got one idea of what may have caused the problem:
Look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Import/Export.

What do you have set for "When Importing audio files"? Is it set to "copy (safer)" or "read directly (faster)"?

bgravato wrote: should I also check if it is dumb-proof?

Not quite how I would have put it, but yes please. I've tried to make this plug-in robust against user error.

1) Check that you have plenty of free disk space. 2) Don't close the project file yet - in fact, make a back-up copy of the project by using "File > Save As" and give it a new name. 3) Check again that the Audacity Project plays correctly, then Export as a WAV file. Does the WAV file play ...

Do you have a surround sound file that works on your system (and has clear distinction between each speaker)?
If you do, what format is it in?

My main aim is to have the highest quality possible The purpose of dither is to provide the highest quality possible when downsampling to a lower quality format (bit-depth) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither and when I silence the audio sections in editing and remove background noise I want my fin...