Audacity Forum

billw58 wrote:I think 1.3.9 includes the "Vocal Remover" Nyquist effect?

Yes it does, but migueford wants the opposite - keep the vocals and remove the music, which is like trying to unscramble eggs.

If no tracks are selected Audacity appears to try to record to all tracks. If the number of channels to be recorded doesn't match the input settings then that error message is technically correct if a bit unhelpful. For your information, on Linux, it just records the same thing onto all tracks, as ...

Without detailed information about your set-up and an example WAV file it could be just about anything. A poor microphone, poor sound card, incorrect recording levels, exporting in a low quality format..... or any number of other things.

I'd like to be able to say "it can't be done" and save you a lot of time and trouble, but there are some tools that claim to be able to do this (though I'm yet to be convinced that they can do a very good job on anything other than a few "special cases", and even then they requir...

waxcylinder wrote:Don't try it if you have multiple tracks though - it will give an error message.

Really? Which version of Audacity and what error message?

edwindora wrote:Hello, sorry if this is the wrong forum, but its my first post.

No problem, but we do need to know your operating system and which version of Audacity you are using.

I very much doubt that it had anything to do with Audacity. More likely that your computer was critically low on resources and on the point of crashing.

Aargh!!! :( :D OK, the problem with setting it to record "Stereo Mix" is that it records everything that comes out through the speakers. That's why it is recording all tracks that are playing in addition to recording your voice. The reason that it is recording louder is because of the comb...

"it's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature!" "Check dependencies" is documented here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=File_Menu The issue of external files, and general file management for Audacity projects is covered in this Audacity wiki article: http://wiki....

AndyC wrote:Did this problem get resolved.

Yes, it was user error. See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ement_Tips