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by waxcylinder
Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:34 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: audacity vizualizes at +.4 center instead of 0
Replies: 2
Views: 365

Re: audacity vizualizes at +.4 center instead of 0

No its a fault with your soundcard - it's called DC offset. You can remove it with Audacity by using the Normalize effect. In the dialog for that effect there is an option to remove the DC offset - Don't apply any normalization at this stage. Apply the DC offset as the first thing that you do after ...
by waxcylinder
Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:30 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Unable to record
Replies: 1
Views: 305

Re: Unable to record

Start off with this article from the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... uter_or_CD

WC
by waxcylinder
Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:45 am
Forum: GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Topic: CD Sounds Fine on DVD Player, Not CD Player
Replies: 10
Views: 4580

Re: CD Sounds Fine on DVD Player, Not CD Player

In which case you have made a data CD and not a music CD.

Your CD burner s/w should have options to let you create either type of disk - you need a music CD as your output.

WC
by waxcylinder
Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:41 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: HELP! HELP!!! Losing data when converting to .wav!
Replies: 2
Views: 363

Re: HELP! HELP!!! Losing data when converting to .wav!

Have you recorded each chapter as a separate WAV file? Have you tried to create a consildated WAV fromthe se separate WAVs? Have you in doing so moved/deleted/renamed any of the earlier WAVs? If so do you still have those WAVs backed up somewhere? Please explain your workflow a little more clearly a...
by waxcylinder
Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:28 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: 1.3.11
Replies: 6
Views: 916

Re: 1.3.11

@Steve, I suspect iew means how do you find the ends of the various songs in an LP transcription (I'm guessing at this from reading iew's posts. @iew, you can try the silence finder but this doesn't always work too well for what you are trying to do (worth a try though). I would recommend using the ...
by waxcylinder
Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:31 pm
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Audacity recordind from digital or analogue?
Replies: 24
Views: 6183

Re: Audacity recordind from digital or analogue?

I'm gonna have to go to the store and see if they'll let me download Audacity so I can do test recordings thru their onboard cards (and just take my own headphones in.) quincy - you can do this more readily by installing portable Audacity on a USB thumb drive ahead of time and taking that to the st...
by waxcylinder
Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:34 am
Forum: Maintaining / Improving this Forum
Topic: Time remaining for recording
Replies: 2
Views: 1469

Re: Time remaining for recording

Elizabeth Joki wrote: What else can I Do?
Try emptying the waste bin ...

WC
by waxcylinder
Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:17 am
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Audacity recordind from digital or analogue?
Replies: 24
Views: 6183

Re: Audacity recordind from digital or analogue?

I use an Edirol UA-1EX USB soundcard mostly used to convert analog signals (vinyl/tape/FM radio) to digital and thence out through the USB services. I did also use it it to convert some minidisc recordings that I had. Now the Edirol also has a digital input SPDIF and I used this to transfer the mini...
by waxcylinder
Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:50 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: numbering tracks
Replies: 6
Views: 576

Re: numbering tracks

What I meant was, for Export Multiple to work you need to have just one audio track, and a label track underneath. -- Bill Bill, I always understood that you could have multiple stereo tracks with a label track underneath - and that on invoking ing export multiple then Audacity would do the mix &am...
by waxcylinder
Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:03 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Track Labels
Replies: 11
Views: 1735

Re: Track Labels

You need to be using Export Multiple and not just the simple Export.

See: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ate_tracks

WC