Audacity Forum

Thank you, Steve, this is a big help. I want to clarify a couple of things. I don't understand about encoding and decoding. When I download an mp3 or mp4, am I encoding or decoding? Which am I doing when I open the file in Audacity? And when ...

... As I said, "nothing happened", even my 6 y/o grandson understands that! You said "the files are there under program files <audacity<help". As written, that is not the correct location of the index.html file which Audacity is looking for. The index.html file should be in a "manual" ...

... the Tascam to record the birds during the recording. Or traffic. Or planes. Or all three. (That's what I am going to do....) (Thanks for all the help thus far...)

... Audacity could not read that file for any reason such as broken Windows permissions, then Audacity would display a warning and point to the online help. Having ascertained prior to posting that the manual files wwere in fact installed where they were supposed to be You said "the files are ...

... if I can reproduce the problem when I go on to my Windows XP partition, but (again) debugging needs full information to go on and a willingness to help us test solutions if we cannot reproduce the problem. What exact version number of Chrome do you have? Gale I am using Chrome Version 34.0.1847.116 ...

... if I can reproduce the problem when I go on to my Windows XP partition, but (again) debugging needs full information to go on and a willingness to help us test solutions if we cannot reproduce the problem. What exact version number of Chrome do you have? Gale

Kudos to both Gale and Koz and your depth of knowledge. We're happy to help. Doing it across eight/nine time zones helps. Let's see. If it's 01:00 in Manchester, it's 22:00 in LA. So corrections, additions, suggestions, and comments are never more than about ...

... Software Playthrough. While you're playing the file, reduce the Audacity playback volume with the Speaker +/- slider over the blue waves. Did that help? Did it change? It's possible to get crackly playback under Mavericks with Audacity 2.0.5 even though everything else is working OK. Distorted ...

... very impressive. You always gave good instructions, too. I certainly have learned a lot through this process. I never expected such in depth help. Kudos to both Gale and Koz and your depth of knowledge.

Your microphone has electronics inside. That's how it works. It's not simple and passive like a rock band microphone. Some electronics can be powered with an internal battery (many shotgun microphones do that) and some don't use an internal battery but depend on the mixer or device to supply battery...