Audacity Forum

IronYouthNoise wrote:I had the drum machine known as "Hydrogen" running and this is what caused the problem.

Yes, that'll do it.
It is possible to run both Audacity and Hydrogen at the same time if you use Jack audio system for both programs.

SheilaVG wrote:I would like to, and have, turned that into a .wav file for use on Express Scribe but Express Scribe will not accept it anyway.

Could you check in the Express Scribe documentation and let us know what file format the recording needs to be.

Thanks yes. This is recording with a USB turntable? Everything you describe seems to be normal, except that the recorded signal level is too high. Have a look on the under-side of the USB turntable (assuming that's what you're using) and see if there is an output level control hidden there (I don't ...

Audacity 1.3.13 is pretty good at automatically recovering in the event of a crash, but it is advisable to Export your original recording as a WAV file straight away (as a backup - just in case). When working on large important projects I usually Save a new copy of the entire project about every hal...

So were you able to create and export the test tone successfully each time? Is it just when you try to play "anything" in Audacity that it freezes? Can you go into "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" and tell me (1) what options are currently selected, and (2) what other options ...

Nice work grimblefritz.
It may be worth noting somewhere in your documentation that for Audacity 1.3 label tracks, if region labels are used, then only the start point of the region label is used for generating the cue sheet.

Have a go with Audacity and you should discover that your friends description makes complete sense. Here's some steps that may help: 1) Import the original track into Audacity 2) Tracks menu > Add new > Audio track 3) "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" set the recording device to your mic...

Thanks to Ed we have a fully working proof of concept.
The feature request is to implement this concept into Audacity.

They end up with 1536 kbps. That's because your sample rate is set at 48 kHz. In the bottom left corner of Audacity there is a "Project Rate" box. Select 44100 in that box immediately before exporting the WAV file. If these are recordings that you are making yourself, go to "Edit men...

I'll move this to the Audacity 1.3.x / Windows part of the forum so that the appropriate people will see it. The only problem is that all my tracks show the red clipping mark at 0 on the mixer toolbar. Could you zoom in close on the beginning of the track and take a screen shot that shows the proble...