Audacity Forum

BubbaMixMaster wrote:Long term, a CD will outlast a vinyl record as to its quality over time and, if preserved fully, perhaps 20 years is an outside number.

A friend of mine has an extensive collection of old Blues records, many dating back to the 1920's and '30's.

billw58 wrote:High quality is when Audacity is doing an Export.

or "Mix and Render", or any other non-real-time mixing (afasik).

(@Bill - hence Nyquist "s" adds dither to silence, if you remember that old thread)

You're welcome.

If your pre-amp is a USB device, it is important that the device is connected to the computer. powered on and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity. I've seen occasions when USB devices have failed to initialise correctly when the computer boots up - in such cases either (a) rebooting the c...

Do I ever need to have the Software Playthrough box checked? Probably not. The main use of "Software Playthrough" is when recording from a USB device such as a Turntable and listening to the music at the same time from the computers sound card (a physically separate device). In this case ...

"Release Candidates" are currently being tested. The developers do not want to be putting the new version out for general release until they are fully satisfied that there are no critical bugs in it. The current 1.3.10 version is very good and has significantly less issues than the old &qu...

Make sure that you have "Software Playthrough" switched off (not selected) in Preferences.

The default settings are optimum.
You want "as fast as possible" for real time operation and "as high quality as possible" for High quality conversion.
Dither should be off for "Real Time" and (usually) "Shaped" or "Triangle" for High Quality.

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... turntables
and here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... uter_or_CD

If you've not got a dedicated CD burning program I'd recommend the free program CDBurnerXP

This will work but it's a bit awkward because you either have to double the back-slashes in the path or change them to forward-slashes. Your plug-in could do that easily enough, thus allowing the user to just enter the path name with single slashes/back-slashes. Also, it is disconcerting not to be ...