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When using the amplifty effect, amplify to a bit less than 0.0dB to avoid clipping (-1.0dB should be safe, -2.0dB will be safer) If I'm following, I think the reason for this is that MP3 is a lossy "psycho-acoustical" encoding (it selects the audio to retain on the basis of it being the most percep...

That's what i have. ntfs partition mounted for rw with ntfs-3g. Perfect RW access from my user, although ls -al shows that all dirs belong to root.root and I cant chown it to myself.. Found a way to trick audacity by making a softlink to the dir on ntfs partition but placing this link in /tmp/audac...

If it's audacity version 1.3.x go to preferences -> devices -> recording device. It should show up there.

When using the amplifty effect, amplify to a bit less than 0.0dB to avoid clipping (-1.0dB should be safe, -2.0dB will be safer)

First, I think this should be moved to the linux forum :) In Linux, usually, your homedir is /home/your-username/ which can also be referred to by the char ~ (~ is a "shortcut" to your home dir). In Linux, user-specific configuration files, usually go into your home dir, either has a single file or ...

The stable version is also an ancient version (over 2 years old I think). It was not designed for modern versions of MacOS-X. The beta version (1.3.x) is not bug free, but it's far more stable on Leopard and Snow Leopard, hence it's the recommended version for this systems (it also has a lot more in...

MacBookPro, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo
MacOS-X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard
Audacity 1.3.12

Pause during recording works fine here (both from built-in mic and built-in line-in, I can try later recording from external usb device).

Which audacity version do you have? Which MacOS-X version?

Audacity's "stable" version (1.2.x) is not recommended for modern macs.

If that's the case you should download the beta version (1.3.x):
http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac

99strange wrote:its just strange that this happens at the 5 min + time

Indeed... I have no clue why that happens. Maybe some of the elders might have any thought...

I usually prefer to play on the safe side... and I rarely amplify anything beyond -3dB or -2dB. ... Ok Bruno - youv'e convinced me - I've changed my personal workflow to amplify to only -2.0dB to give a little more headroom :) I wasn't trying to convince anyone... :) Usually everyone has its own wa...