Audacity Forum

All right. I finally finished a mashup and decided to back it up to my flash drive, just in case anything happened. The .aup file and data folder transferred to my drive in one piece - everything seemed fine. However, when I went back into Audacity to open up the file, it came up completely blank. ...

Update the drivers of the onboard audio device: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updat ... ce_Drivers .


Gale

In other words, do File > Export... when you want to save the recording for use in other programs (as the warning states when you save the Audacity Project) .


Gale

Thanks, Bill & Gale. So just to confirm. If I removed the soundflower kernel extension (com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower), my audacity app should NOT be impacted in any way? Soundflower provides a system recording device with which you can capture audio playing on the computer. Many people find...

holdontoyourtowel wrote:Checked the drivers list from Dell and Windows and updated everything plus reinstalled Audacity- no idea what part fixed it, but it's fine now.

It will be the drivers update. Reinstalling Audacity would not cure unbalanced recording.


Gale

The DMG (and the zip) do of course create application support files in ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ but as Bill says this does not install any other applications.


Gale

If you never saved a project there is a temporary AUP file called an autosave file that is similar to the AUP. You can find the autosave file on Windows 2000/XP at Documents and Settings<user name>Application DataAudacity or on Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 at Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudac...

You can buy a small doubler adaptor for the headphones out of the radio that would still let you record into computer line-in (if you have one).

Recording a radio acoustically is very sub-optimal.


Gale

Got FFmpeg installed from a different app and Audacity didn't like/recognize that either. As you can see from the Manual, the FFmpeg library required for for loading via Preferences is no later than 0.6.2. We are hoping to do an update for later FFmpeg in the not too distant future, or use the FFmp...

This is the correct download address http://audacityteam.org/download/windows . Export as WAV as soon as the recording is finished. You don't have to save as a project unless you want to continue after the first session. the first test worked and I was able to export the one song in mp3 format and p...