Try downloading this file and see if it plays: http://audacity.easyspacepro.com/examples/piano.wav
This is Kozikowski's famous piano sample and is a totally standard 16/44.1 WAV file.
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- Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:21 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: WON'T LET ME EXPORT & SAVE AS .WAV IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9330
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:40 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: New set-up
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3368
Re: New set-up
If you double click on the loudspeaker icon it will open the Windows Mixer, or the sound card control panel (depending on which your sound card uses). In there you will find a lot of options, including which sound card input you want to use and the recording level (the recording level is a different...
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:33 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: WON'T LET ME EXPORT & SAVE AS .WAV IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9330
Re: WON'T LET ME EXPORT & SAVE AS .WAV IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAY
Export the file as "WAV 16 bit Microsoft PCM, 44.1 kHz"
Virtually all programs, including WMP understand this format.
See this post for how to do that in Audacity 1.2.x http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 081#p47456
Virtually all programs, including WMP understand this format.
See this post for how to do that in Audacity 1.2.x http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 081#p47456
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:22 pm
- Forum: Compiling Audacity
- Topic: audacity 1.3.8 // compilation error
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5964
Re: audacity 1.3.8 // compilation error
I'm no expert on this, but in the absence of any other suggestions, check which versions of libtag you have installed. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 and have the following: libtag1c2a version 1.5-3 libtag1-dev version 1.5-3 libtagc0 version 1.5-3 libtagc0-dev version 1.5-3 Also I compile with these options: ./...
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:07 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: sudden increase in speed during playback
- Replies: 1
- Views: 205
Re: sudden increase in speed during playback
You may be running out of disk space and/or RAM.
If you close Audacity and then reopen it, all the temporary files and memory used by Audacity will be freed.
If you close Audacity and then reopen it, all the temporary files and memory used by Audacity will be freed.
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:04 pm
- Forum: Audio Processing
- Topic: Records one track with M audio soundcard
- Replies: 1
- Views: 395
Re: Records one track with M audio soundcard
Check in the audio devices section of the Windows Control Panel. There may be an option to set the number of input channels.
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:03 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Windows Media Player cannot open wav file to burn to cd ??
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4164
Re: Windows Media Player cannot open wav file to burn to cd
Set the "Uncompressed Export Format" to "WAV Microsoft 16 bit PCM" (you will find that option in "Edit menu > Preferences > File Formats"). Before you Export, set the Project Rate to 44100 (lower left corner of the main Audacity Window). Then use "Export as WAV&quo...
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:58 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Recording Problems!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1031
Re: Recording Problems!
1) Close Audacity 2) Use "safely remove hardware" to disconnect the USB microphone 3) Physically unplug the USB microphone and wait a few moments. 4) Plug the USB microphone back in and wait for Windows to recognise and connect it. 5) Open Audacity 6) In Audacity, go to "Edit menu > P...
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
- Topic: Multi-Channel Simultaneous Recording Release
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4319
Re: Multi-Channel Simultaneous Recording Release
There have been posts from people doing 16 channel recording with Audacity using an Alesis MultiMix 16 USB. If anyone would like to buy one for me I would be happy to check it out 
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:10 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Number of bytes in a file
- Replies: 2
- Views: 724
Re: Number of bytes in a file
Audacity does not show the number of bytes as this can not be accurately determined - it will vary according to the export format that you use. You can see the number of samples by clicking on one of the boxes in the Selection Toolbar at the bottom of the Audacity window and select "samples&quo...