Audacity Forum

Two completely unrelated questions, and neither of them anything to do with compiling audacity (hence why this post has been moved). In both cases we need to know what version of audacity you are using (which would be obvious if the posts were in the right place). We also need to know what operating...

You presumably have a sound card installed as well as the Zoom. If you select this as the recording device (on the Audio I/O tab of the audacity preferences), does that record correctly? Assuming it does, then we can be reasonably confident that the rest of the system works. I'm really puzzled by yo...

When someone with a Mac volunteers to do the necessary development to make it work, and builds some dmgs to release. The audacity team has been down to effectively one Mac developer for some time, and they are currently too busy to contribute, therefore we can't develop, test or produce Mac builds.

Don't try to do a high dive before you can swim. In other words, get single channel recording working before you try anything complex. The fact that you have an entry in the audacity preferences means you probably have the right drivers loaded to detect that card. What other options do you have in t...

Without some more information, we can't.
* What version of audacity (Help > About)?
* What distribution?
* What sound card / device?
* What sound settings are set in the audacity preferences (Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O)?

The reason the input chooser isn't present is because the build script disables it, about 1 page down where it says ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-portaudio=v19 --without-portmixer --program-prefix= you need to remove the --without-portmixer bit, and then you will get a control to switch between d...

It's odd that ALSA:default gives you the sample rate error on Xubuntu - do you have aRts or something running in the background? It's possible that aRts or another sound server has ALSA:Default locked, and so that is why audacity can't open it. Normally (and I'd expect *ubuntu to be normal) ALSA:def...

If it's a 32 megabyte file at 32 bits per sample, it's about 30 seconds long. If it isn't, then one of your statements isn't correct. I suspect that in fact it's an MP3 file with a bitrate of 32kbits per second, making it about 16 minutes long. This makes it nothing to do with WAV import, but possib...

If you select a hardware device (I suspect the "SBLive Value" device has (hw:0,1) or similar after it) then I would expect you to have to select a sample rate that is supported by the hardware, because the hw: devices bypass all software resampling and processing. This is great for latency and signa...

What do you mean a NULL message? Not that I'm terribly interested, because the first thing I'm going to say is upgrade to 1.3.4 and see if that has fixed it. 1.3.0 is a very old beta version - bugs are to be expected.