Audacity Forum

One other question. I realize that Audacity is an audio editor, probably the best one out there. I need it to simply record voice over cuts, using a mic and a mixer. I may do one cut 6 or 7 times before I'm satisfied with it. After I select the cut I want and export it usually to MP3, how or what i...

First thing make a copy of the project files. Copy the .aup file and the _data folder to another place in your disk or make a .zip archieve of it, etc. So that you have an unchanged copy before trying anything else... Second, upgrade to 1.3.13-beta. Crash recovery tools on 1.3.13 had some improvemen...

EdS wrote:I was going to reset the preferences for Audacity as suggested however I don't have an audacity folder located under <your home dir>/Library/Application Support.

That's weird too...

If you search for a file named audacity.cfg in finder, does it find anything?

waxcylinder wrote:Oops <hides face in hands in deep embarrassment>

One of these days I'll learn to read properly ...

WC

No worries it often happens to me too

Are you talking about an USB cable?

Yes there has been quite a few cases of faulty usb cable reported here on the forum, more than one might think... It's not that uncommon to find a bad usb cable...

Which audacity version are you using? And which MacOS-X version?

To reset the preferences quit Audacity and go to <your home dir>/Library/Application Support/audacity/

Open audacity.cfg with TextEdit and delete everything except the line "NewPrefsInitialized=1".

Save the file without changing the file extension and restart Audacity.

I don't remember how it worked in 1.2 but in 1.3.13, the latest Beta, when you invoke the silince finder there is a "Minimum Duration of Silence" parameter that you can set (default is 1 second) - does that do what you need? WC I think feelthebeat was talking about Sound Activated Recordi...

feelthebeat wrote:How is it possible to define the length of the silence, because there might be short "blanks" in a conversation and then its starts again.

No, but I think there's a feature request for that... shall your vote be added?

Could it be that it's opening somehow in the "background" or out of the "working space"?