Audacity Forum

For whatever it's worth, I get the same runtime error with winXP x64. Version 1.3.7 works fine. Try the latest version of Audacity from here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Nightly_Builds#Windows_Binaries Before installing, read this: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&a...

There is one more possibility. An old staging trick is to put the microphone upside down so the capsule is only a half-inch or so from the floor. That will dramatically reduce one source of echo (the floor) and double the loudness of the signal. I don't think that is likely to be a suitable solutio...

Try the latest version from here and see if that fixes it: http://audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac%2F
If you still have a problem, please try and make a note of any error messages.

It's even easier than that - Just set the "Project Rate" (lower left corner of the main Audacity window) to whatever you want your Exported audio file be, and then Export.

Where is the index for all that information you showed me under the URL on Normalize and Amplify. The home page is here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page But for new users of Audacity, two really good entry points are: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title...

The latest Windows version of Audacity is available from here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... s_Binaries

The cassette tape will be lower quality sound than the original (due to the limitations of cassette recording), but other than that there is no reason why you cannot record a cassette tape with Audacity and edit it.

george13 wrote:But the data has to be imported in some way, it's not a sound file.

EarthquakeSam implied that he already had it as a sound file, but in either case there should be enough information here now.

The time shift tool will only work when you are in "Stop" mode.
In Audacity 1.3.x you can use Ctrl+M to place a marker while the audio is playing. Beats are usually visible as peaks in the waveform display.

Does anyone know if Audacity can play back sound files at many times the recorded speed so that the frequency of these low frequency signals in raised so that a person can 'hear' them in the normal audio range? Yes - very easy. use the "Change Speed" effect in Audacity 1.3 If you can't sp...