Audacity Forum

... is this going to affect the quality at all? Most certainly it is - see this tutorial from the 1.3 manual and note the advice against doing this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Higher_speed_transfers Just sit back and enjoy the LPs/singles as they play. If you really want to save yourself so...

In 1.2 recovery is a manual process (not for the faint-hearted) see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CrashRecovery It is now automated in 1.3 - and seems to work very well in the later Betas. WC Update: Ooops I note that you say you are using 1.3 - you confused me by posting in the 1.2 section of ...

... and 44100hz is industry standard right? - so it should be a very acceptable quality. 44.1kHz 16bit PCM stereo is the industry Standard for CDs (the famous "Red Book") 48kHz is the industry standard for DVD The CD standard was chosen way back in the early 80's as a compromise for very ...

... Is this planned obsolescence No, somethings's got screwed up somewhere 1.2 and LAME should syill work fine if you have the right LAME for 1.2 and it's not been moved from where you told Audacity you's installed it to. ... Is this planned obsolescence or is it time to get 1:3 ? But yes indeed. 1...

It is the MP3 that is adding the extra bit of silence, not Audacity (that is why your WAV doesn't show thsi).

WC

I run my UA-1EX with Audacity set at 32-bit floating and it works fine with the UA-1EX set to 44.1kHz and either in its advanced or standard mode. My current understanding is that it is running in 16-bit in both those modes (down to the audio interface s/w used by Audacity, PortAudio: see this long ...

I moved this to the 1.3 forum beacause as you are using Windows 7 then you really should be using the latest 1.3 version. I suspect that you are using the software supplied withn the ION and that is likely to be the now ancient and no longer supported 1.2.6 So for your first step, upgrade to 1.3 whi...

turn off the " Software Playthrough " either in Preference s or from the Tracks drop-down menu . If you have this selected while trying to record what is playing on the computer ("what you here", "stereo mix" etc.) you will create a feedback loop (the symptoms you descr...

For future reference when you have finished making your recording Export a WAV file of the projects as a safety copy.

WC

For starters upgrade to the latest Beta 1.3.13 (the Beta line is now very mature and approaching Release Candidate status). It works better on most modern platforms than 1.2, which is now ancient and no longer supported. If you continue to get the probelms in 1.3 than we can help you trobleshoot the...