Audacity Forum

billw58 wrote:Way too complicated anyway for what most OS X users want to do, which is record "what you hear". Soundflower is much simpler and easier to set up.

Thanks Bill - that's what I needed to know.

You will need to Export the audio as a WAV file.
Ensure that the Project Rate is set to 44100 (look in the bottom left corner of the main Audacity window).

See here for burning audio CDs: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/How_to_burn_CDs

Have any of you Mac guys tried "Jack OS X"?
http://jackosx.com/

So Audacity takes the maximum value inside a buffer of samples, but only the positive ones (and this seems to be an issue). Yes it appears to do so, but in normal recording practice it would a very rare occurrence for it to be a significant problem. It is however a little disconcerting that the lef...

I agree about boosting the treble (centred somewhere around 2.5 kHz) to bring out the vocal, but what else you do depends on the kind of sound you want. The bass can be tightened up (made less muddy) while retaining most of the low bass by just cutting frequencies around 200-250Hz. Compression can h...

What you are missing is support for "Stereo Mix" by the sound card driver. Increasingly the "Stereo Mix" option is being dropped, and if the sound card driver does not support "Stereo Mix" recording, then you can't record sounds that are playing on the computer. The fir...

Does the RealTek control panel look something like this: http://wiki.secondlife.com/w/images/6/6d/Torley-Realtek-settings.png If it does, ensure that the "Stereo Mix" input (in the lower "Record" half of the picture) is not muted. The Red X below the "CD Volume" and &qu...

I am having the same problem. File playsback fine in Audacity but when I try and export the file just gives a "click" then nothing at all. Any idea why this is happening? You will need to give a lot more information. Are you Exporting them as "16 bit (Microsoft) PCM WAV" files? ...

Spamlet wrote:Why not include the libraries in with the main programme download?

I believe that there are legal/licensing issues that prevent that from being done.

The short answer is that Audacity does not support loop points.
The longer answer is that there is more than one type of AIFF file. There's a lot of information about AIFF in this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Inte ... ile_Format