Audacity Forum

... to figure out how to get the playback from recordings to come in through my headphones instead of the computer speakers. Can anyone possibly help me find a solution to this problem? Is there a solution? Thanks and Thanks! - Levity

... and then cutting down to the right length and merging together i.e about 3 hours of work already. Hopefully there's an easy way if anyone can help (I managed another track well last night without any major hiccup) thanks

Do you have Norton? In Audacity, please look at Edit > Preferences... then the Directories section. Where is the temp folder located? If you create a new folder in Explorer that does not have "temp" in its name, copy the folder address from the address bar in Explorer, then paste that add...

The Sample workflow for exporting to iTunes at http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_exporting_to_itunes.html mentions that you can export to 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM WAV files and then convert to AAC in itunes. Then it mentions that “It is possible to export 32-bit PCM files too, by c...

Thanks everyone so much for your help! All answers were super helpful. I think I will just use iTunes for conversion from WAV to AAC as recommended, though I will definitely experiment with Custom FFmpeg Export as suggested by Gale Andrews ...

Koz:

Thank you for your help...I am using mp3...and yes, the options button that let me change quality was the missing step that I had forgotten about. Once done, I never needed to do it again but I had forgotten it by the time i bought this new computer..

Thank you so much.
Steven

... a separate recording device from your motherboard audio, adding stereo mix (meant for recording computer playback) to your motherboard audio won't help. Motherboard audio should have drivers supplied by the computer manufacturer or motherboard manufacturer - installing generic Realtek drivers not ...

But then I realized that since the consensus seems to be that AAC is better quality than MP3... That seems to be true and AAC was intended to be an improvement over MP3. But, at higher bitrates there will usually be no difference. Most of these lossy encoders (MP3, AAC, OGG, AC3, etc.) can be trans...

I believe this is a known problem. AAC/M4A exports do not have a complete range of quality options. Yes, as per the release notes: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.0.6#Imports_and_Exports_.28FFmpeg.29 : M4A (AAC) exports: The Quality Slider in "Specify AAC Options" has no...

I disagree with Koz, changing Audio to buffer often does help Mac playback problems on Mavericks. Just remember that 100 milliseconds is the default value if you do need to go back. And I would go back. Changing an environment variable for no reason ...