Audacity Forum

Labelling is not easy to manage in 1.2 - it sis much improved in the Beta 1.3 version of Audacity.

WC

don't worry - it catches a lot of people out

The worst offender is the ION ITTUSB manual which totally fails to mention this important step.

WC

Are you saying that once you close a project and reopen it, there are no "undos" available? Or stating it in another way, you can't undo past the point where you last opened the project? Yes that's exactly what he's saying. And I've never found a use for the .bak file - but I do regularly...

You need the dialogue box Edit>Preferences>Interface - and set the language in the drop-down to English . If the commands are also currently non-English then Edit is the second command in from the left Preferences is the last selection in the dropdown Interface is the 6th (tab across in 1.2.x - or s...

If you are in luck, there will be an updated driver that fixes it - if not ...... Or you might consider buying an external USB or firewire soundcard - the Edirol UA-1EX or the Behringer UCA202 seem to work well with Audacty. The Behringer is cheaper, the Edirol has more functionality - both have go...

the USB turnatable has hijacked you PCs aufio output as well as its input - and the TT doesn't have speakers. All you need to do is to set windows output to your onboard soundcard (do this from the Control Panel ) - and you may need to set Audacity similarly (go to Edit>Preferences>Audio I/O ) - and...

Ah.. that's certainly a possibility Steve. On the user with the blue progress bars - I have the desktop set to Windows Classic (this is my main work a/c - but also where I keep my iTunes library, so I do the occasional Audacity work. The user a/c with the green progress bars is my main Audio work a/...

Please don't triple-post

WC

I ran Audacity 1.3.3 on two different user accounts on the same PC (Windows XP-HE-SP2) - I note that the progress bars to show progress on import/export/save differ between the two accounts - both are administrator accounts . On one a/c the bars are blue and the other they are green - and I can find...

Audacity's default MP3 bitrate is set to 128 - this is generally rgarded as the lowest acceptable bitrate for music. For spoken work you can usually go much lower - 64 or even 32 without creating bubbly digital artifacts from the compression. To reset the bitrate in 1.2 go to Edit>Preferences >File ...