Audacity Forum

Arjen wrote:The prefference settings are set to USB Codex both sound recording and sound playback.

Your USB turntable is probably not a playback device, so you need to select a playback device (such as your sound card) in "Preferences" for playback.

You may be getting confused by the "Save" option in Audacity (lots of people do). IN Audacity, when you "Save", it will save a project file, and also create a folder with all the data for that project. This is not normal audio. To get normal audio files that you can use elsewhere...

Switch OFF the "play software through" - as you have worked out, that is what is causing the problem. In order to hear yourself, look in the "Windows Mixer" and make sure that in the playback section "Microphone" is not muted. If you can't see a slider in the playback s...

Marsh wrote:all my EFFECTS are GRAYED out What do I have to do to get them working...

You have to have some audio selected - either one or more whole tracks, or part of the track(s).

Yes the tagging system is the same for FLAC and Ogg Vorbis (just different terminology - "Tags" and "Comments" respectively), but they are different from "ID3" tags. (The second link that I gave gives details). Yes, there are some known issues with the tag editor in Aud...

Can you actually change someone's voice with this? No, but you can synthesize a "replacement" vocal. It's actually a hybrid sampler/synthesizer - It sounds a bit strange (synthetic) as a lead vocal, but it's pretty good for backing vocals. Also, it has the advantage that it will "sin...

There was a real problem with 1.3.3 and mp3 export : http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=587 That's a shame, but at least there's a work round. "Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device settings and the project sample rate." This seems to be a ra...

I checked in Audacity and the dl from Wal-Mart says 44100HZ and the ripped from cd's say 22050HZ. ... That seems strange. CD's ALWAYS use 44100 Hz. I presume that you still have the original files somewhere safe (the downloaded file and the CD rips) - just in case anything goes wrong, keep a backup...

This doesn't answer your question, but mp3 Export should be available in v 1.3.3 - it uses LAME, the same as v 1.3.4

Sorry, my mistake, I mis-read it and thought you were making a CD :oops: Yes, wav files take up more room than mp3's, usually about 8 times more, depending on how much compression you use. Your slide show program (PTE? what's that?) may only accept certain types of mp3. MP3s can be variable bit rate...