Audacity Forum

Does the CD drive show up in "My Computer"?
Does the CD drive show up in the Device Manager? http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvi ... mvista.htm
Is the Device Manager indicating any errors?
Are you getting any error messages anywhere?

I think this may be the bit that you're looking for: http://code.google.com/p/audacity/sourc ... rc/FFT.cpp

Here's my general tips - they may or may not be appropriate to your project. 1) Don't work on the original recording. Make back-ups of the original, and work on a copy. 2) Get organised - make a folder that all of your audio and project files relating to this recoding can be placed in. 3) Split the ...

Audacity does not generate beeps into recordings, so we will need to try and determine where the beep is coming from. First let's check that you really do have Audacity 1.3.12. Open Audacity and go to the Help menu > About Audacity. It will tell you the exact version number. I presume that you downl...

SumGuy, please don't link directly to executable files - anyone clicking on the link will have no idea of what they are downloading or whether it is safe to do so. Anyone trying out AudioGrabber should be aware that by default it will install a "shopping" toolbar in your browser. The insta...

The vertical red clipping indicators can sometimes look worse than they really are. The audio does not need to clip by much to produce a lot of red lines.

Is it a multi-track project or just a single audio track?
What does it sound like if you play it?

I have come up with a small patch (to SVN HEAD) that explicitly sets focus to the track panel after import. That solves the problem for me. I have not tested on other platforms than Ubuntu 64-bit. The patch works nicely on Ubuntu 10.10 (32-bit), but unfortunately it breaks things on other platforms...

What are the opinions about capturing at a Very High data rate and downsampling to a Music CD if needed. It depends on the equipment. With very high quality equipment (vinyl + turntable + tone arm + cartridge + stylus + pre-amp + sound card) and suitable care in setting it all up, recording at 96/2...

There are already a couple of "feature requests" for improving Sound Activated Recording, but what exactly is it that you are trying to do? There may be some subtle differences between the improvement that you would like to see, and those already suggested, or there may be some technique t...

It is much easier if they export an audio file, for example an MP3 or a WAV file, and then e-mail that, rather than try to send an Audacity Project.
MP3s are slightly lower sound quality than WAV files, but they are much smaller, so quicker to send and receive.