Audacity Forum

I DID mark 'audio CD' whenever prompted to do so, Good, that is correct - not doing so is such a common mistake. It is also important that you use a CDR (Recordable CD) and not a CDRW (re-writable CD). Sometimes you will get write failures, or poor quality disks for no apparent reason. It is genera...

Audacity is only able to record from one audio device at a time, so with USB microphones, you will only be able to record from one microphone. Other software may be able to record from more than one USB microphone, but Audacity can not. Using Audacity to record one USB microphone you only need to ha...

For the benefit of others, could you say what your sound card is, what settings you changed, and where you found them?

I have been recording sounds, music, and others using the microphone that's inside the computer. I went to youtube for example and recorded whatever I was viewing. I think that you are getting confused. When you want to record sounds that your computer is making, for example a YouTube video that is...

I am also using audacity-1.3.5-beta (unicode) on ubuntu-8.10. Apart from the addition of a few Nyquist and LADSPA plug-ins, I have a standard installation of Audacity 1.3.5 installed with Synaptic. My computer is a 500MHz Pentium III with 512 MB of RAM. I have just tested the ClipFix plug-in (the ZI...

here is a picture of the audio i am working with, http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1102/clippingrd8.png any constructive suggestions? You mean apart from recording it again I presume. I seem to remember reading that Clipfix can be rather memory hungry - how much available RAM do you have on your co...

I will often use Audacity along side other programs. For example, If I am editing and cleaning up a recording on my Linux machine, I will use Audacity for the editing, and Gnome Wave Cleaner for noise removal. If on Windows, I will use Audition or Cool Edit Pro for noise removal. I sometimes use Aud...

Check the settings for your sound card - you probably have it set to record "stereo mix" (which records everything that goes through your sound card and not just the microphone or "line in" or whatever input you are using). Note, this is not a setting in Audacity, it is a setting...

My guess - you are recording with a laptop computers on-board sound card and it has some "noise removal" or "Automatic Gain Control" (AGC) effect that it is applying to your recording. If I'm correct, you will need to find the settings for your sound card where you can turn these...

MP3's always have a little snip of silence at the beginning - it is one of the limitations of the MP3 format and is one reason that MP3's are unsuitable for (seamless) audio loops. It is not due to any particular encoder, it is due to the format specification. In Audacity (formerly Cool Edit Pro) th...