Audacity Forum

You need to set your sound card to record from "Line In" and not from "Stereo Mix".

You mean that you want to convert the lyrics that are being sung into text? (like speech recognition but with singing rather than spoken words?)
I don't know of any program that can do that.

The Audacity window remained open. This is new behavior with 1.3.12; in earlier versions when I clicked on FILE > CLOSE the window closed (and, of course, the project). The default behaviour in Audacity 1.3.12 should be the same as in previous versions - File > Close should close Audacity. While th...

Some turntables have a volume control on the under side of the turntable (really inconvenient). Have a look if your turntable does, and if so, turn it down a bit.

I closed the project At that point I would expect Audacity to close, and would then right click on the next WAV file and select Open With Audacity, which would start a completely new Audacity project with a nice clean temp folder and nice clean RAM. but you're saying that Audacity doesn't close? an...

Ctrl+N wrote:As a matter of fact, I export in flac when I want what I do use to burn CDs to read the metadata.

Are there any CD burning applications that use Flac metadata in CD text?

That's very interesting. Thanks for the feedback and I glad you find it useful.

hedera wrote:when I try to import a new file, the whole window closes

That sounds like a fault. You should be able to import multiple files into the same project.

So that we know we're talking about the same thing, could you describe in step-by-step detail how to produce this behaviour.

I am trying to find out if Audacity will operate in this continuous recording application. Please let me know. No it won't. Audacity can make very long recordings, but in order to play back you must stop recording. On standard computer hardware the practical limit tends to be around 12 hours, thoug...

You can get that effect using "Change Speed" which is in the Effect menu. Les Paul used the same technique (he INVENTED it, for heaven's sake!) Whilst it is true that Les Paul was one of the very early adopters of the new recording technology, the technique of changing the playback speed w...