Audacity Forum

Can you Export as WAV?
If you can, do that. You can Import the WAV into a new project if necessary.

It would probably be a good idea to upgrade to Audacity 1.3.9 as this will probably be more reliable.

The recording quality of the microphone inputs on laptops (and on most general purpose desktop machines) is usually very poor. The best fix is to upgrade the sound card. If you get a USB sound card, make sure that it has a proper XLR microphone input and a headphone socket. If you get one that has &...

bat wrote:you know...i haven't tried the autoduck! lol Defidently worth a TRY, huh?

You can find instructions for it here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... =Auto_Duck
You will need to set all of the time values very short to get the effect that you are after.

I did manage to export seven of nine songs to CD Burner XP. The other two come up with the message "The audio file has an invalid format" How do I export the remaining two songs individually? Still using the old 1.2.6? The format that you need for CD is 16 bit 44.1kHz In Audacity 1.2.x th...

That could well be it Bam42685 - I'll drop him an e-mail and see if we can catch him before he has a row at the shop. (I never did claim to be an expert on either Vista or USB turnrtables - good job we have a "disclaimer"..... what's that? - there is no disclaimer? - well here's my disclai...

wondering if there's any way to set this up in audacity? Have you tried the AutoDuck effect in Audacity? You would need to set all of the time values very short. You use two tracks - select the upper track and apply the effect. The processed upper track will duck when the level on the track below g...

Model numbers might help.
What do I plug into what socket?
I've no idea about your set-up except what you have told me, and that is not very much.

SirSneaky wrote:anyway to solve this ...

By putting them back into exactly the same folders that they came from.

Unless this is an extremely important an irreplaceable recording I would scrap it and start again.

For Audacity 1.3.x on Vista, the audacity.cfg file is in:
Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity

This information, and lots more useful stuff, is in the Audacity wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php

I didnt find anything which I THINK WILL HELP ME SOLVE THE PROBLEM ... PLEASE SPECIFY ... WHAT I NEED TO DO Too much punching :D As Koz said. Also, from the link: What is an Audacity project? Saving an Audacity project lets you save unfinished work and re-open it later in Audacity exactly as it was...