Audacity Forum

Let's make sure that you have the correct file. Go to this page: http://audacityteam.org/help/documentation Click on the link that says "Download the Audacity manual in HTML format." Unzip (extract) the file. You will now have a folder called "manual-1.2" Open the folder and look...

Have a go using following the Audacity wiki tutorial - it may cover some steps that were missed in the tutorial that you were using: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Transferring_tapes_and_records_to_computer_or_CD (Lots more good tips and tutorials on the Audacity wiki as well: http://a...

Where did you get the manual from? Please post a link.

I'm guessing that the error message should read "not able to open destination file for writing"
This could be because you do not have enough free disk space, or you are trying to write to a location that is not writeable for some other reason.

EdLDV wrote:I noticed that when using the mouse arrow to send the speaker volume thingy on the Audacity top toolbar down to zero

If you look in the Windows Mixer (loudspeaker icon near the system clock) you can probably mute it altogether rather than just turning it down.

Lets start with first things first and try and clear up some confusion. why always seem to end up with not only WAV files but also DATA and AUP files I think this will explain: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=File_Management_Tips Before we go any further - does that make sense now? Also...

The problem is that the microphone input on the laptop is about 1000 x too sensitive for the output from the mixing desk. You may be able to get it to work if you turn down the output from the mixing desk so that it is very vey low (and turn the recording volume back up). A better way would be to ge...

CD's don't work in my home stereo. They work fine in a portable CD/radio stereo. They are distorted and choppy and there is a lot of clicking noise on my computer and my car stereo. Ill be brief strochim because you are hijacking someone else's question. Since you have the .cda files showing on the...

I'm assuming that you are using Microsoft Windows? Windows XP or Vista? In Windows. when you open "My Documents" or any other folder, it opens in "Windows Explorer". This is a typical view of Windows Explorer on XP: http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/usi...

How to add my own very short soud effect to an other much longer audiotrack? Could you describe in more detail what you are trying to achieve. mixing two different mono tracks korrect way with Audacity Unicore beta. If you have two or more tracks in Audacity that play at the same time, they will au...