Audacity Forum

i press record and then my band plays the song. when we're done playing, i'll press stop. then i press play. there is normal sound for about a second and then the volume starts cutting in and out and quickly reduces to almost no volume. That is a sound card issue and is common on many PC laptops. T...

simi wrote:After updating from Version 1.3.4 to 1.3.6, I was not able to select more than 2 channels for recording. I use the Delta 1010LT soundcard from m-audio.

This is a known problem in Audacity 1.3.6 (possibly 1.3.5 as well). Hopefully Audacity 1.3.7 (which is due out very soon) will fix this.

"Clean Speech" is a special mode for performing quick tasks on speech recordings. This mode has many of Audacity's features missing from the user interface.

To switch between Clean Speech mode and normal mode, go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Interface".

"Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab"

What options are available for Recording and Playback devices?
What options do you have selected?

Also see here: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... e_computer

I presume that you have looked at the Tutorials: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

The Audacity 1.2 tutorials are good for getting started on either Audacity 1.2 or 1.3 (though you will find a few minor discrepancies if you are using Audacity 1.3).

I think that you will have more success at fixing the Audacity 1.3 problems than fixing the Audacity 1.2 problems. (Audacity 1.2 pre-dates Vista SP1 and is no longer being developed). Have another go with Audacity 1.3.6 (if you have an earlier version of 1.3, then download a new copy - Audacity 1.3....

Audacity always uses uncompressed audio data, so when you open or import an mp3 (or any other compressed format), Audacity will uncompress it as it imports it. As Koz says, on Windows you can see the format properties of a file by selecting the file and File > Properties > Advanced Properties. For m...

cobusmusic wrote:What do I do to record it to Audacity from the soundboard?

If you are wanting to record from a USB device, then you will be completely bypassing the computer soundboard.

You need to select the USB device in Audacity Preferences. What options are available?

I want to access a Au file I created If you are referring to the .au files that are in the project data folder, you should not be trying to access these. They are data files, and making any changes to any of them will destroy your Audacity project. Se here for important information about how Audaci...