Audacity Forum

Thank you Koz, So, I will keep my Win-7 volume set at 5 and Audacity Input slider at 0.1, as this prevents "blue waves that reach all the way to "1" either direction, and ... bouncing light sound meters that hit "0." " Any idea why if I close the WIn-7 Sound window, the sound quits and there is no i...

I find that when recording from my reel-to-reel tape deck to Audacity in Windows-7, I cannot adjust the input volume using the Audacity input volume slider without it changing my WIn-7;Control Panel; Sound; Line In properties; Levels. And, this happens vice versa . If I have Audacity and Control Pan...

I am now using FLAC and a friend who has tried my FLAC files on his Sonos says they sound great and show most of the tags from Audacity. Missing Are: year and comments and publisher. BTW, can you suggest what I might set the Normalize effect settings for? 0.5 or 1.0 or ? I am digitizing very old ree...

Frankly, I find the "universal portability" advantage a lot. As we discussed, my ears are not up to discerning fine musical distinctions, and, the use is primarily background music. I would prefer to stay away from a proprietary codec if possible--unless it had major advantages. My goals are easy/fa...

Thanks for the thorough and useful response WC, Sonos supports all the codecs you mentioned. One thing I am wondering is how well the various codecs support music notes, album covers, etc. Is that a function of the software I use, e.g., Audacity or the codec, or both? My ears are starting to go, so ...

I am using Audacity beta with Win 7 to convert a lot of reel to reel tapes to digital to be used ultimately with a Sonos home listening system. After I convert a tape to digital I fill out the Audacity form for information about the music, but when I play it back in Windows Media Player, the informa...

I am using Audacity beta with Win 7 to convert a lot of reel to reel tapes to digital to be used ultimately with a Sonos home listening system.
Could you advise what would be the most likely best file format to use?