Audacity Forum

My favourite audio player for Windows: foobar2000 - not much to look at, but awesome.

With a CD burning program.
Try Nero Essentials - it's dead easy to use and very cheap.

I've been able to record songs and then put the vocals over them, whilst being able to hear the guitaring from the first the first recording. However, yesterday when I was using the software it stopped letting me hear the original recordings whilst adding vocals. "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/...

Glitches are caused when the incoming data can not get through to the hard drive fast enough, so bits get missed out. Drop the sample rate to 44.1 or 48kHz (this will halve the data throughput and have negligible effect on sound quality (apart from perhaps curing the glitches) Defrag your hard drive...

SMA11784 wrote:So you're saying this would go away if I was using an analog mic rather than a USB mic?

It might, and for the sake of borrowing a cheap computer mic it would be worth testing. I for one would be interested to know if that fixed it.

The exe version gives a few extra options such as creating a desktop icon, an entry in the start menu, and associating audacity projects with Audacity (so that you can click on a .aup file to open it).

If you are exporting as WAV, then no - the wav format does not support meta-tags (it's just a minor annoyance that Audacity asks you for them when you choose to export). FLAC is a lossless format that supports metatag information, though not all media players support it. MP3 supports metatags and is...

but then we would get loads of posts saying "help, I've used 300 GB of disk space and I've only recorded 3 albums".

The warnings about excessive disk space usage would have to be in massively big letters.

Another way would be to open up a new stero track and paste the audio into the second track with a slight overlap in relation to the end of the original track - and cross-fade between the two stereo tracks This works well with music that does not have a strong rhythm, but try to keep the cross-fade...

Assuming that you mean taking a stereo out signal from your sound card and splitting it into two stereo signals to drive two stereo inputs, then it will work fine as long as you do not exceed the drive capabilities of the sound card output. If you try splitting the signal between several pairs of pa...