Audacity Forum

yes i had looked there and the only options are microphone and line in - i dont suppose there is any way to add more options. If the hardware / drivers only give those options, then those are the options you have. Occasionally newer or older drivers may give more options, but failing that the only ...

Topic moved (but there is no "2.3.5" so I presume that you mean 1.3.5 ) Shame about not using the Edirol for playback, and I'm afraid I don't now enough about it to help with that issue. The best solution is obviously to get the Edirol working for both recording and playback (which no doub...

Nice one Trebor, good to see some interest in Nyquist. A few comments on the code - looking at the business end of it (I've replaced the controls with your default values): (setq choice 0) (setq a 12) (setq v 20) (setf freq (cond((= choice 0) 50) ((= choice 1) 60))) (setq que (/ 10000 (* a a))) (set...

Jeffry83 wrote:.I also find it strange that my pc doesn't hold any recovery points from January

Check the logs of your anti-virus program, it may have "helpfully" deleted your restore points.

Have a look in the "Tutorials" (link at top of page).

The latest 1.3 version of Audacity has a feature "Save Compressed Copy of Project" This compresses all tracks as Ogg files and puts them in a data folder, then creates a special project file that imports the whole lot into the correct places. Here is an example of such an AUP file: <?xml v...

The information that is relevant for you is further down the page. "On XP or earlier, right-click over the speaker icon in the System Tray > Adjust Audio Properties. Or you can click Start > (Settings) > Control Panel > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio devices First, click on...

Whenever possible, work with uncompressed audio (WAV). MP3 compression is "lossy" and always causes some degree of sound quality loss. If you open an MP3 in Audacity, edit it and export it as an MP3, then you have quality loss times 2. The loss is cumulative and gets worse every time you d...

Have you installed any new programs recently?
Can you record from the headset microphone?
Has ANYTHING been added, changed or updated on your computer recently?

As Koz said, overloading in the digital realm is not a problem, but overloading the input to your sound card can make it smoke. Similarly, playing back recordings with a lot of high frequency content (such as is caused by clipping) at high volume can blow the tweeters in your loudspeakers (they do n...