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AvidBrain wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:22 pm

44mhz

I assume that you mean "44.1 kHz"?

AvidBrain wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:22 pm

The problem arise when i try to record long riffs ( >16 seconds)

What's the problem?

otrebor wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:31 pm

audacity 2.3.3-alpha-Nov 22 2019

Where did that version come from? Did you build it yourself from the source code?

I've received this reply from Professor Dannenberg from CMU (one of the founders of Audacity): Hi Steve, I think your implementation is correct. You could output the magnitude squared of the bins individually to get a power spectral density -- it's not clear whether Aaran wanted spectral data or jus...

Try resetting Audacity according to these instructions: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=101842#p356191

Then download the current version (Audacity 2.3.3) via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/
Installation instructions are provided on that page.

daparte wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:27 pm

but when I press the button "record" it does not work.

What happens?

For Mojave, see this post: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=103573 For Catalina, see this post: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=107162 The Catalina problem has been resolved in the development version of Audacity, which is due to be released next month ...

MP3 is a very old format, and looping was not a consideration back in the days when the format was developed, thus the "encoder/decoder delay" was undefined. A consequence of this is that MP3s have a bit of "padding" at the ends. This is a well known limitation of the MP3 format....

That looks OK. Does it work? if I have something playing on my computer If that "something" is a file, then it would be better to "Import" it rather than "Recording" it. If that "something" is on the Internet and there is a "download" option, then be...

In Debian / Ubuntu / Mint ... If you use the standard repository version of Audacity, FFmpeg (and LAME) is usually installed by default and Audacity's "Libraries" menu is hidden. If you are unable to import / export formats supported by FFmpeg / Lame, then as Neil wrote, you may need to us...

Open a Finder window, then use "Go" (from the Mac menu bar) and copy / paste