Audacity Forum

Are you in PAUSE mode when you try to make the edit - you need to be in STOP mode.

WC

Or see this workflow tutorial from the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sa ... tunes.html

WC

For waxcylinder: I looked up the Phono plus manual which says the Pream Line out is for monitoring or use as a stand-alone preamp,. There's also a previous post I found in this forum which confirms that Phono plus can't be used for PC playback: Thanks for the feedback suffolkman - Gale has obviousl...

"Our" Audacity Manual can also be thought of as a "software guide". And some users make your complaint even about "our" Manual, because they can't find the Tutorial. I can almost understanding users not finding the Manual - but once they have it the front page very nea...

Those numbers are the "bit rates" of the song (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate) - the higher the bitrate, the larger the file and the higher the quality. 320 gives a file which to most ears will be indistinguishable to the WAV file 256 gives excellent play back quality imo (it's ...

You need to have a read of this page from the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... jects.html

WC

MUSICMAN1 wrote:How much more space does a wav file take up compared to an mp3 file? Is it a lot? Double - triple the size? I'm assuming a player can play either one?

At 160/192 its around 10 times bigger in my experience

At 256 it seems to be about 5 times bigger

YMMV

WC

Also see this FAQ from the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... und_device

WC

However, if I understand you correctly, I can also 'reverse' the signal flow through the converter and use it to connect its 'Preamp Line Out' to my hi-fi amplifier to playback audio files from my PC? (Currently, I'm using the sound card jack to connect to the CD input on my amplifier) Not being at...

You might want to have a read of this article from the Audacity Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_from_Cassette It may be that the heads and drive mech. need cleaning, the head azimuth may need adjusting, etc. the article in the Wiki addresses these issues. Before I made my tape cass...