Audacity Forum

What's the difference between a "Bug" and an "Unsupported feature"? µ-law is a companding algorithm rather than an actual file format - I've not found anything to say whether a µ-law WAV file should include descriptors or not, but as long as it is a valid file in the format that ...

There are various ways that file types can be determined. The obvious one is by file extension, but this is obviously limited to very general types. Another way is by reading header block information (I think this is how Windows does it) - if there is no header block information, it does not mean th...

One way is to mix them with a Mixing Desk (Mixing Console) and record as a stereo mix. You will probably need to experiment a bit to get it to sound good. Depending on what kind of mics you are using, you may find that the mics overload and it sounds horrible, in which case you will need to do an &q...

PRIMO wrote:Unable to play back and record at the same time in mono. Works in stereo but not mono.

The only thing that you should change is in "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O" - Change the "Channels" setting to "1 (Mono)".

motheroftwokids wrote:Please help me clean this piece of audio:

Have you posted the wrong clip? This has already been heavily processed.

I don't have a mic, and not sure how to do line-in. To record from Line in, you need to be recording something like an MP3 player, Cassettes player, CD player. or similar. You will need a lead that fits the output (preferably "Line Out" of the thing that you are recording (though it shoul...

So Audacity with your USB turntable intermittently hangs, but Pyro is fine, but you like the editing features of Audacity. Why not use Pyro to record, then disconnect the turntable and use Audacity to do the editing? What version of Audacity are you using? On Windows XP I found Audacity 1.3.4 to be ...

That looks fine to me. Open up the Windows control panel and find "Sounds and Audio Devices" On the "Audio" tab, make sure that the SigmaTel sound card is selected for recording and playback. You can also try ticking the "Use only default device" check box. With these s...

I think it's time to admit defeat with Linux and look at some other way of avoiding Microsoft. IMHO Linux is just getting to the stage of being viable as a desktop OS for ordinary folk. I've poked around with various versions over the last 5 years or so, and each time I've decided to wait a bit lon...

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