Audacity Forum

Yes it does sound a bit crazy, but in some cases it does help. For the vast majority of users, installing Lame works first time (out of the box) but for various reasons it can fail for a few users. This only happens to a small minority of people, but it seems that you are in this elite club. If ther...

The original advice of not connecting a pre-amp output to a mic input still stands.

So it sounds like you do not have an Audacity issue, but a turntable/pre-amp issue. A google search for "ground turntable" turns up many hits.

-- Bill

Then add crackly noise from a download sound clip. http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Turntable/Record-needle-noise/Long-Playing-Record-Crackle/324428 Save $5 and get free crackles from Freesound ... e.g. http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24961 http://www.freesound.org/samplesView...

I am using 1.2.12 beta and I exited Audacity saving my project as I would normally but when I went back in I got the warning project message. My files are now mostly blank. I am ok with rerecording the files that were corrupted however I am trying to figure out why this happened to ensure it does n...

A search on Google for "Vox player" returned over 2.5 million results, so you should have little trouble finding something suitable. :) My guess would still be you want a command line tool like SOX so you can pass -r 6000 when you open the file (or at least a tool that has a preference to...

A search on Google for "Vox player" returned over 2.5 million results, so you should have little trouble finding something suitable.

Ah, it only users sliders, so can be version 1. If I added a "choice" widget it would be "version 3". Right? Yes. The "Text" widget was introduced in version 2 The "Choice" widget was introduced in version 3 We're probably overdue for "version 4" as...

So i was wondering if anybody here knows where online I could find legitimate royalty free sound files to download, and to use, I am not talking about famous sound track, but something original, that can be used without doing anything illegal I am sure there must be something out there for this pur...

Unfortunately, sound card manufacturers rarely bother to write drivers for Linux - They have to write drivers for Windows because Windows has such limited hardware support built in, but has such huge dominance of the domestic PC market. Fortunately Linux has much more comprehensive hardware support ...

Have a look on Freesound.org (the open freesound project http://www.freesound.org ) and search for "vinyl noise". Use the Equalizer effect to reduce the bass of your recording and also reduce the highest frequencies. Import the vinyl noise that you have downloaded from Freesound.org onto a...