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the echo part gave me this command line sequence: mkdir -p ../musica-mp3/./Portishead/Dummy ffmpeg -i ./Portishead/Dummy/09 Biscuit.m4a -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k ../music-wav/./Portishead/Dummy/09 Biscuit.mp3 mkdir -p ../musica-mp3/./Amelia Cuni & Werner Durand/Ashtayama ffmpeg -i ./Amelia Cu...

It says on the call recorder site you can convert the files to mp3s would this make it easier for me to edit if it was in this format? It would be better if you could export to WAV. MP3 is a lossy format, that means the audio gets "damaged" in order to produce smaller files. That damage i...

You have to download it. You have the download link and installation instructions here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ (it's recommended that you read thoroughly through the installation instructions) You don't need to delete the old version, you can have both installed (provided you install them...

Hmm... That's weird... So the first track records properly but on the second one it gets just silence? If you record one track, then delete the track and record again what happens? Does it record? Or silence too? What sound card do you have? Which host, playback and recording devices do you have sel...

Hi Steve Do you mean upload the file I'm trying to edit online somewhere? If so I can upload it to youtube and post the link? Uploading to youtube doesn't help. Steve probably meant that you should export a few seconds of the imported show and upload that. Anyway regarding your problem if I underst...

Shippo wrote:Running Audacity 1.2.5

You shouldn't be doing that... 1.2.5 is a very ancient version!!

Upgrading to 1.3.12 is highly recommended.

If for some reason you want to be running an 1.2.x version you should at the very least upgrade to 1.2.6 (but 1.3.12 is probably a better option anyway).

the problem is that the compressor settings changes If you're using Audacity 1.3.12 I think the compressor settings should be remembered from one usage to the next, even after restarting Audacity. I just confirmed this in Audacity 1.3.12 on Mac. I used the built-in compressor, changed all settings ...

I'm using chrome on mac and linux and I have no problems with that.

The example I gave earlier (find . -name "*.m4a" ...) only searches for files ending in .m4a (case sensitive).

WAV is also a free format.

Sorry no time at the moment for looking deeper into this...

In a fairly recente system and for the typical use I think encoding times can be neglected in most cases. About the numbers... the higher the bitrate the better the quality. In the case of variable bitrate where you have a "quality" parameter rather than a "bitrate" it depends on...