Audacity Forum

With USB devices, the device does not exist until it is plugged in. Audacity identifies available devices when it is first opened, so you can only select a USB device if it has already been connected. A possible workaround would be to set Audacity to use the Windows Sound Mapper, then plug in the US...

What do you mean pretty poor sound quality? .... Was the WAV version any better? The WAV version is noticeably better sound quality than the MP3 version. I don't use YouTube much, but it's clear that there has been a substantial reduction in sound quality due to MP3 compression. It may be worthwhil...

what if u like it do u have to buy it? There are a lot of completely free versions of Linux available, in fact there's only a few versions that cost money. Of course most of them do accept donations :) Ubuntu is one of the completely free versions and is a good version to get started with. I like L...

http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/15/ ... inging.wav What's the noise at the end of the file? I'm not getting crackles on the MP3 version, though the sound quality is pretty poor. What web browser are you using? What speed internet connection do you have? Is there any reason why you need to use Y...

Nice find Uwe. Just in case that web page disappears, here's the relevant information: To fix mono recording problem with ION USB turntable in Vista: Open the Sound option from Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound. Click the Manage audio devices link, Click the Recording tab, Select the Microp...

yea i going to buy the xp cd...i wasnt sure before but now im going to get it. You are aware that XP becomes officially obsolete on January 31st. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx That means that as of January 31st Microsoft discontinue support for it. All previous versions of...

whats this alpha 1.3.8 This is the version that the developers are currently working on. No it's not a stable release, and it changes regularly as the developers add, remove and change bits of it. The most current version is available by downloading the source code and compiling it yourself (not pa...

where can i download a LAME software to convert my .wav to .mp3 on my Mac OS X 10.4.11?? My computer has a hard time downloading the available links from some other sites... I went to file>export>and ended up failing to find a mp3 converter... http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ Take care to download the co...

I'm sure you can appreciate just how difficult it is going to be for anyone to track down a problem like that. There have been a lot of bug fixes in 1.3.8 alpha, which will probably be released soon, so keep an eye open for that (I think there is a place on the main Audacity website where you can si...

If you can't get iot to work with Audacity 1.2, you could try upgrading to Audacity 1.3 and see if that is better. Alternatively, you can record in Garage Band, then edit in Audacity (Export from Garage Band as a WAV file, then Import into Audacity. Audacity 1.3 has latency correction in "Edit ...