Audacity Forum

There are three possible solutions that have been reported to work. The easiest but least likely - reboot. Or right-click or CONTROL-click over Audacity.app, click "Show Package Contents", expand the "Contents" and "MacOS" folders then double-click the "Audacity&qu...

greggormack wrote:I'm using an Aux Out of a Mackie Mixer to the Line in on the PC.

Then why have you a posted an image of a Mac computer set to record from its built-in microphone?

Are you on Mac or Windows?


Gale

Also even with the same playback and recording device, the tracks you're playing must be at the same sample rate (look above the Mute/Solo buttons on each track) as the sample rate you're recording at (see the Audacity Project Rate at bottom left). It "shouldn't" matter but with some devic...

the blue lines at max amp on the audacity record diagram are always present... What are you trying to do? Your image shows you have Audacity set to record stereo mix, and the track is silent or very quiet (flat line). At the moment you are in Multi-Tool which includes Envelope Tool and so you have ...

As I understand it, Spotify no longer have a downloads store, and the "Listen offline" feature is cached playlists (DRM'ed, so cannot be used outside the Spotify app or saved as separate songs).

https://support.spotify.com/us/using_sp ... n-offline/


Gale

You can always use the Windows WASAPI loopback method to record computer playback: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... tml#wasapi.


Gale

If the problem is hearing the echo while you are recording, turn off Transport > Software Playthrough in the Audacity menus.


Gale

The best way to do this is to use a speech to text application such as https://speechpad.pw/ to convert your voice to text, then copy/paste that text into a text to speech application. Of course speech to text is not 100% accurate so you will need to proofread the text. There are text to speech appl...

jack3216 wrote:May I put your mind at ease in using Spotify any music I record from it using Audacity is entirely for my own PERSONAL use

I recommend you read the Spotify user agreement: https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/#s8 .


Gale

If you do use the alphas then we'd be very interested to know if you still get the record over-run problem or not As I said on the -quality list, at least one other user on Mac has the same issue in the latest 2.1.3-alpha. That user's screenshots don't show anything wrongly set up. UK format time i...