Audacity Forum

Is it possible to show the timeline as the 'actual time of the day', ie have the start of the session show (for example) "12:11:40" rather that having it start as "0"?? (using version 2.1.2 on Windows 7) No that is not possible, so I moved this to "Adding Features". Ho...

I downloaded audacity from a free online source. You risk harming your computer if you do that. Always download Audacity from us at http://www.audacityteam.org/download/ . I am trying to record records with it but the audio is horrible. To describe it I would say it has a TON of very loud static an...

Macs do not have a built-in way to record computer playback - you are probably recording from the internal mic, which of course sounds terrible.

The best free solution is to use Soundflower - see Tutorial - Recording Computer Playback on Mac.


Gale

It's a bug which we have now fixed in our source code. If you don't want to keep the unsaved changes, delete the AUTOSAVE file in ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/AutoSave/. This will prevent Audacity trying to recover the project. Go > Go to Folder in Finder is an easy way to get to the AutoS...

Make sure you are not selecting audio then using Export Selected Audio. WAV is limited to 4 GB maximum size. Some applications won't play WAV files above 2 GB or play them incorrectly. AIFF has the same restriction. Audacity's choice of Other uncompressed files > RF64 header is the lossless PCM form...

runny meade wrote:Thanks, that worked great. Just took a few trys to get the settings right.

Good, but which of the suggestions worked and what country are you in? This would help others who have the same question.


Gale

We can only help you with Audacity, not with problems created by Lenovo. Is it a USB webcam, or a webcam built into the Thinkpad? When you say you set Presonus to stereo in the sound manager, is this Windows Sound? See http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_how_to_s.html#rinstereo . What e...

Ok, I updated HP's audio driver for my model and also re-installed Skype, and the uninstalled it using Task Manager. The problem persists. Still sliding back to zero and no signal. I know the cord is good as I am using it with another computer. So you don't have Skype at all now? And you've tried t...

comp radio is radio on my computor... in my case usually winamp . Ive unticked the playthrough in transport ive got default sample rate down to 8000 hz default sample format at 16 bit project rate at 8000 hz windows wasapi speakers realtek hi def audio speakers realteck ( loop back ) mono recording...

I Updated the driver on my computer which is "High Definition Audio Device" made by Microsoft. That could be the problem, as described in the link I gave: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers . Assuming you have a branded computer like Dell or Lenovo, you want t...