Audacity Forum

WilliamTell, a workaround for you would be to ignore the LAME plug-in for Audacity and use an external MP3 converter. You will need to export your projects as WAV files for conversion and you will need to search t'interweb for a suitable converter (you should be able to find a free one). There are a...

<<<Maybe my lack of those "correct" words is merely symptomatic of my ignorance. >>> No. Everything you say has to be taken at face value. We can't assume you know the difference because too many people try to "save" a sound file by removing snippets from their Project and instan...

It's a lot harder than it seems because the conditions for this are very serious. The show must be in Stereo, the singer must be in the middle, etc. etc. In your case, the music must be surgically perfectly lifted from the original digital track and not just copied from a similar track you found on ...

If you already have a working turntable, you're usually far better off repairing that one and using that with a quality phono-preamp than trying to buy a USB Turntable. The manufacturer's know they're making a throw-away turntable and that's what they built. A lot of USB turntable manufacturers incl...

[quote="ragrossman"] Will the quality of the copy depend on my computer's soundcard? /quote] Yes it will, and the quality of a typical PC on-board sound-card is rubbish for recording. If you already have a good quality digital recorder, then you are likely to get better quality recordings ...

Use Audacity 1.3 and adjust the "Latency correction" in Preferences.
There is a tutorial about latency correction somewhere on his forum - a search might drag it up.

The recording inputs of laptop PCs are frequently very poor (designed for internet phone calls rather than music recording). This is why most Audacity users with laptops use USB sound cards (search the forum for "Behringer UCA 202" and for "Edirol"). It would only work with the a...

Many people on and off the forum like the Zoom recorders. Search the forum and Google.

Koz

What I've used for hum is a "notch filter" or "parametric EQ" (I think they're the same thing). I use an Apple thingy that you won't have, but I see there's a "Mag's Notch Filter" in the set of LADSPA plug-ins ( http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins ) that would prob...

I have reinstalled Audacity 1.3.7 twice in order to try to remove this problem Reinstalling rarely makes any difference to any issues, since any issues that are to do with user preferences are stored in a file called "audacity.cfg" (a hidden file). Rather than uninstalling/re-installing, ...