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Any reason you're exporting the work as MP3? We recommend exporting the vinyl capture as WAV (Microsoft), 16-bit and put them somewhere nice as your music archive. Only then make lower quality MP3 files for casual listening. See this suggested workflow from the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audaci...

When I transcribed my LP collection I mainly re-bought commercially available factory-stamped CDs (especially for my favourite albums). With a few of them I discovered that later re-mastering had ruined the recording - mainly down to the infamous loudness wars. And for those I reverted to converting...

The number of reports of empty saved AUP files went up as soon as we made the AUTOSAVE file a binary file rather than a human-readable XML file. It is a good bet there is a correlation. But we won't have to worry about this in 2.1.4.... I think I can put money on it that you will. Hahahaha - i'm pu...

For the upcoming 2.1.3 release I have updated the Manual, rearraging the installation instructions so that they are split out by operating system. You may find this page from the updated Manual useful: http://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Mac_OS_X I recently ro...

Yes I plan to capture in WAV format and yes I agree there is a lot of work to do in clean up with this amount of raw data. I plan therefore to process this data in something like Soundsoap to automatically apply a degree of clean up, rather than do a manual repair. Is my planned approach going to b...

Oh and do I detect a fellow Mervyn Peake fan?

Or it's possible that files in the Audacity app have the xattribute "xattr com.apple.quarantine" set. This means that Gatekeeper blocks them. To fix it, open a Terminal (Applications > Utilities : Terminal.app) then type or paste: sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Audaci...

To make a selection with a mouse / pointing device, click on the waveform (in the track area, not on the Timeline) for one end of the selection (start or end of the selection), then Shift+Click in the waveform track area for the other end. Or just click and drag while holding the left mouse button ...

And it looks as if you can convert only to mp3... Can you not still change the conversion format in Preferences? Of course you can I export as WAV all the time and use iTunes to convert to AAC Edit > Preferences > Import Settings The really annoying thing about iTunes though is that it is the same ...

If iTunes can read (or play) the existing file it can convert it to MP3 (or AAC). But, I don't know exactly how to do it See Format conversion in iTunes . Step 6 of those instructions in the released Manual were made ourt of date by a change Apple made in iTunes versions released this year. You can...