Audacity Forum

In addition to Bill's comments; Audacity is used successfully in many schools (and the price is great if you're on a tight budget). It also has the advantage that any of your students that have access to a computer at home will be able to run the same software at home. However, the pupils will (not ...

slaudio wrote: Then I loaded the WAV file,

What you actually did was "import" the WAV file.

Audacity does not directly edit files. Audacity works in its own format which are "Projects".
The default format for the audio data in an Audacity Project is "32 bit float".

I'm really not sure what you are asking - could you be a bit more specific about what you are trying to do.

If you are playing a CD in your usual media player, and while it is playing you launch Audacity, at what point does the sound become distorted?

You can stop skype starting automatically through msconfig, and then just start it when you want to use it. You can stop Skype starting automatically through the Skype configuration settings (which is probably a better way to do it). It may be worth checking in the Windows Control Panel Sound setti...

Don't worry about it, we all make daft mistakes sometimes.

Am I recording at too high a volume? Possibly. Can you post a screenshot (there's a tool in the Audacity Help menu that will allow you to make a screenshot of a track) or post a short (less than 1 MB) sample as a WAV file. I tried selecting line in,"what U hear", mike in-all yield the sam...

I am using windows 7 and audacity 1.3 to record. Topic moved to the Audacity 1.3.x forum. I've heard of this problem on Windows 7, but I can't find it on the "known issues" list. There is a " Moonphase " bug that may relate to this. Are you using the 64 bit version of Win 7? If ...

Probably worth having a read through this page on the Audacity wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/File_Management_Tips

You should also be able to import a track by dragging the file onto the open Audacity window.