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by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:39 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: how can I do these exercises?
Replies: 20
Views: 2576

Re: how can I do these exercises?

Visualizza caratteri romani = View Roman characters :?

What's this about? Are you asking us to do your homework for you?
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:35 pm
Forum: Maintaining / Improving this Forum
Topic: lost recording
Replies: 1
Views: 1049

Re: lost recording

First, see here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4524

Second - is the hard drive working? If it is, see here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CrashRecovery
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:32 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Double Trouble
Replies: 1
Views: 424

Re: Double Trouble

Jester-Scotland wrote:I apparently still have two versions of Audacity
What do you mean?
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:29 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Odd distortion
Replies: 18
Views: 2350

Re: Odd distortion

Have you tried burning the recording to audio CD and playing on a CD player? This would serve to eliminate the possibility that the distortion is produced by computer playback.
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:19 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: uninstall audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)
Replies: 1
Views: 420

Re: uninstall audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)

Windows Control Panel > Add Remove Programs > Uninstall Audacity.
What "major problems" is it causing? Are you sure that it's Audacity causing the problems?
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:17 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Second Track Recoding Volume
Replies: 2
Views: 306

Re: Second Track Recoding Volume

This sounds very odd, in fact it does not seem to make sense at all. What are you recording? Your voice? Try this: 1) Open Audacity and record you voice. That works fine? 2) Rewind to the beginning of the track and press the record button. This records at a very low volume? 3) Delete both tracks (cl...
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:07 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Won't Save Audio File
Replies: 1
Views: 517

Re: Won't Save Audio File

It sounds like Audacity may have crashed, or at least "frozen". First, have a cup of tea and calm down - there is a greater risk of destroying all chance of recovery if you are in a tizzy. :) Accept the possibility that you may have already lost everything, then anything that you are able ...
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:26 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Free audio for making music
Replies: 2
Views: 623

Re: Free audio for making music

At one time there was a comprehensive set of individual notes recorded from classical string instruments in the BBC on-line archive. Not sure if it's still there, but may be worth a look. Also: http://www.freesound.org/ http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Audio http://free-loops.com/creative-commons-aud...
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:20 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: How does Audacity render waveforms?
Replies: 4
Views: 4427

Re: How does Audacity render waveforms?

Audacity uses WxWidgets for its GUI elements. The actual method used to render waveforms is rather complicated as Audacity uses block files for the data rather than the original data stream. The waveform graphics are encoded into the .AU data files. There is an overview of Audacity's architectural d...
by steve
Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:38 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: how to find max & min samples
Replies: 11
Views: 5909

Re: how to find max & min samples

whomper wrote:is there a template for a good error report?
Here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html