Audacity Forum

Hey!

Okay i'm just so confused about how it's malfunctionating after a few weeks of no usage. I'll try the alcohol cleaning method you mentioned! I'll be reporting the results after it, but thanks for the quick help, i really appreciate it!

Sincerely

Npstyle

Thanks to all for ideas and help, especially cyrano. As long as I kept the computer from going into sleep mode by opening other windows, checking email, etc. Audacity continued to record the entire sequence without a glitch.
tltphd

... around in Windows Sound Control Panels and see what you find. Search for Windows Playback Effects. I'm not a Windows elf. If you need more Windows help, we should wait for one of them. Koz

... whereupon it stopped working again. Running audacity like this "env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity", as suggested on your wiki , didn't help. It just caused audacity to freeze for a minute when every playback was attempted. One other thing I've noticed is that, when it's broken, playback ...

... level reduction, should you set that to -48 or to -96 dB? Does it 'add' -48 dB to the -48 dB of the threshold? Or is it separate? Thanks for the help.

... a noise gate is to reduce the level of the noise - that is, make the amplitude less - that is, make the amplitude in dB more negative. Does that help?

What he said. Once you get to the point that a human can't figure out what the words are, Audacity isn't going to help you. Our line is "We can't do forensics" (like CSI). We also don't do legal actions, if this hadn't occurred to you. "If I could only make out the ...

Please do not double-post. It just confuses everyone who is trying to help you. I merged the topics.

Gale

... playing again from Audacity. Nothing changes. I still hear the original sound. I only hear the improved sound from the Spitfish plug-in. Can you help? I already tried reinstalling Spitfish, and that didn't work. There is no bug with Audacity that I can see. "Apply" applies what you ...

If the track is mono, then isolating the vocals is near impossible.
If it is a stereo track, then you have a chance (but definitely not guaranteed success). See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ation.html