Audacity Forum

You are not using your sound card for recording - only for playback. An easy way to test if it is just the sound card messing up the sound on playback is to export the audio from Audacity as a 16 bit 44.1 kHz WAV file, and burn it as an audio CD, then play it back on a CD player. If the crackles hav...

You are best to seek out "good" recordings. For Classical music, there are magazines such as "Gramophone" that will review the virtues of particular recordings compared to others. The "budget" line of CD's are rarely top quality. When a CD is "mastered", the s...

Audacity 1.2.6 Windows XP SP2:

"Edit > Preferences > File Formats"

It sounds like you are getting "glitches" due to your laptop failing to get the audio data and write it to disk fast enough. A few things to try that may help: Shut down all non-essential programs and processes, including Anti-virus (safest to disconnect from the internet first). De-fragme...

The maximum size of a single uncompressed audio file that can be addressed in 32 bit is about 2GB. It may be that you are running up against this limit. There is no workaround on a 32 bit computer. Not sure if you have 64 bit hardware and a 64 bit OS.

Filtering the (voice) audio (100 Hz / 10 kHz) is a good idea and will help minimise unwanted noise without loosing any significant sound quality. You can also make your mp3's much smaller by encoding as mono. don't think you can do that (at least not easily) in Audacity, so you will need to export f...

For best compatibility, export as "16 bit 44.1 kHz Microsoft PCM WAV". This should play correctly in all media players, even WMP.

When Audacity opens an mp3 file, it will decompress it. Since the compression will probably around 10:1, this makes the uncompressed file in the order of 2 GB, which is the maximum file size for addressing with 32 bit. (If you look on Google you will see that this is also the maximum size of a WAV f...

You are not being ignored because people do not want to help, you are being ignored because few people on the forum know Linux very well, and even fewer have access to a Blue Snowball USB mic. A few things that are relevant to your problem: The standard Linux kernel is not particularly good for audi...

Audacity will be fine for editing your Yamaha projects as long as your computer is fast enough to handle 16 tracks at a time without glitching. With a reasonably modern machine running Windows XP this should be no problem. The Yamaha AW16G will allow you to export (onto CD) all the audio tracks of a...