Audacity Forum

Taurus wrote:I can't gain access to the effects toolbar.

Why not? Are the effects all greyed out? If so, then make sure that you have some audio selected and ensure that Audacity is "Stopped" (effects are not available during record, play or pause).

Running from my phone headset to the microphone jack on the laptop, the sound coming out of the speakers sounds great but when I listen to the recording made at the same time it is very distorted. I'm not sure exactly what you are doing - if after updating the sound card drivers you still have the ...

I have tried both audacity (the newest version) With Win 7 you should be using Audacity 1.3.12 - check in Audacity "Help > About Audacity" to ensure that you have the correct version. Audacity 1.3.12 can be downloaded from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ I was reading somewhere th...

Loop the mp3 clip to last for the duration of the show The MP3 clip should be imported (into a new track) - "File menu > Import > Audio" With the MP3 Clip track selected "Effect menu > Repeat" and enter the number of repeats required. Fade out the mp3 level so it's muted and a b...

44100Hz, 16 bit (Microsoft) PCM WAV For the 44100Hz, part, look in the lower left corner of the main Audacity window for the "Project Rate" setting and check that it says 44100. If it is at any other number, change it to 44100 before you export. For the other settings, select "16 bit ...

lynhood wrote:75 gig h/dr..63 g/b free.

Is that 63 gigabyte free space,or 0.63 gigabyte?

How many hard disks/partitions on your computer, and how much free space is there on each?

In Audacity, look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices"
What options are available and which options have you got selected?

I have seen some barebones editors that can supposedly do a basic edit of an mp3 (cutting a segment, doing a fade) without recompression--allegedly, I say allegedly. MP3Split can do basic (cut and trim) editing on MP3 and Ogg files without decoding/re-encoding. http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3spl...

I have read that playback of single channel through both speakers typically works, but may not--depending on the sound card. Is that not true? Or will it invariably work, regardless of sound card, hardware, connections to a home stereo, etc? Playing back a mono track should always play back through...