Audacity Forum

It may be possible to make some improvement - it depends what is wrong with it and how bad it is.

he cassette player's earphone (TRS) port is connected to the computer's microphone port, Microphone ports are not really suitable for plugging a tape recorder into. As you say, it works in a fashion, but frequently it will sound horrible. The problem is that a microphone input is about 1000 times t...

There's some good ideas there. Just about everything can be done from the keyboard - a few short-cuts that may be useful in conjunction with these last suggestions: ENTER = select/un-select track Up/Down cursor = move focus to track above/below HOME = go to beginning of track END = go to end of trac...

I'm unsure where you are looking. If you are on Windows XP you need to set the recording input in the Windows Mixer (loudspeaker icon near the clock). If some of the inputs are missing, go into the "Options" in the Windows Mixer to make them appear in the Windows Mixer. If you are on Vista...

This forum exists to help users with things they don’t understand Absolutely correct, but I think that koz is making these suggestions in the hope of making it easier for ALL users. You might be surprised at the number of questions about (for example) Windows issues that get posted on the Mac board...

Are you sure that you have the region of the track selected? (zoom in close with the zoom tool).
How about with 5/100ths second? 1/10th second? 1/2 second?

BTW, you know that MP3's always have a short silence at the beginning of the file? (it's a "feature" of the format).

Check how much free disk space you have. Windows should always have min. 10% free space. Note that audio editing uses a lot of disk space - if you are editing a whole album, it can create several Gigabytes of temporary files, and you still need to have enough space for your exported audio, plus 10% ...

Grab a copy of Foobar2000 (It may not look like much, but it's an excellent audio player that plays just about anything, and it's free). If the Ogg file sounds distorted when played in Foobar2000, then it's distorted and you will need to record it again (at a lower level). Use the WINDOWS MIXER (fro...

Can I suggest that you try doing the recording in Pyro for a while. If the problem goes away, then you have an easy workaround (you can still import the wav files into Audacity for editing). If the problem reappears in Pyro, then you will know that the problem is not with Audacity, but elsewhere (po...

If you generate a click track,
starting at time=0
120 bpm
4 beats per bar
60 measures
offset = 0.0

If you check it against the time line, or the times in the selection toolbar, how long is the track?
It should be 1 sample short of 2 minutes 0.000 seconds.