Audacity Forum

The input options you get are entirely down to the combination of your soundard, its associated device drivers and the O/S. My Dell laptop with a Realtek souncard runs Widows XP-Profesional-SP3 - and it records streaming audio perfectly - it did so more or less straight out of the box. Sometimes it ...

Can you play this WAV fime in Windows Media Player or RealPlayer? I seem to remeber from previous postings that there can be some "non-standard" WAV file types - and that Audacity may struggle with these too. If you can play it in WMP or RP - then you may be able to record it into Audacity...

AAC is Apple's proprietary format - and most AAC files aslo have DRM (Digital Rights Management) embedded in them to prevent/inhibit copying. As you have Audacity cannot operate on these files. You should be able readily to find a converter, try googling " AAC to WAV" or "AAC to MP3&q...

A friend of yours should have sent you not just the aup file - but also the f older associated with it containing the hundreds of little au files that make up the Audacity project. Better still would have been for your friend to export the project as a WAV file and then send the WAV file to you - ca...

Katie, You have almost certainly imported a filetype that Audacity does not recognize - Audacity works with WAV, MP3 and Ogg (and in 1.3 support for FLAC is added). You will need to either convert your file to one of the supported formats and then import - or play the file in software that supports ...

mundeli, a further thought - you may care to take your documented process an create an entry in the Audacity Wiki tutorials section - see: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials You will need to create a wiki account to do this - and the text could be tidied a little with the benefit...

Looks like a pretty well-sorted process you have there. Excellent advice about cleaning the records first - and further excellent advice about doing the backups (I keep two copies of the production files that I make on two different external USB disks - and run two, more or less parallel, iTunes lib...

Lastly; is there a downloadable manual and subforum for NEW users of Audacity? There is a manual for Audacity - but as a new user you will be better off starting with the tutorials on the Audacity Wiki. In particular I would start with this one: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Transfer...

See this page on installing for a MAC http://audacityteam.org/download/mac

Note carefully that different MACs need different Audacity versions.

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I was told to use a separate program from Austrailia, called "click fix" rather than Audacity for pop and click removal. Anyone heard of it? You are doubtless thinking of ClickRepair - am a user and avid fan of this s/w- see this thread that I started last year: http://audacityteam.org/fo...