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... your computer and we've not been able to pin down what or where it is. Even if we are not able to "fix" the problem, we may be able to help you to "potter along" a bit more comfortably. A couple of (simple) questions that will help: 1) Did you find that exporting as WAV and ...

Hey guys, I'm basically a total noob when it comes to audacity so I need your help! I made a few interview recordings in a car with my camcorder, but there's a super loud background noise coming from the car. This happens when you're travelling along at 60+ mph. ...

Technically yes but only if you have software that's able to do it. The serato dj software I'm using is called serato intro & doesn't have a recording faculty. The next model up records as do most other dj software programs. That's how I found out about audacity. People with serato intro mainly ...

... same folder there as about 300 audio files. and read in pages and says I have to merge files to open the entire project, but nose how. I hope your help please and thank you .. use ubuntu 12.04

... for the beginning and ending of sounds. What would be the simplest possible way to export a text file of the timestamps? Thank you for all your help. My advisor and I aren't familiar with audio science, so its been a struggle to figure this out.

Please attach a sample file of what the problem sounds like:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=72887 .

Have you turned off Windows sound enhancements:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... hancements ?


Gale

Do you just want a default directory to export files to (or save projects to, or both), or something more? Will this directory be different on every user's computer?

Have you read http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 95#p223595 ?


Gale

Perhaps this tutorial will help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... music.html

... and the frequencies are not constant. The best that you are likely to be able to do is to reduce the squeal. I doubt that compression will help at all.

It sounds like it is probably a problem with the sound card drivers.
Does your usual media player play audio files OK?
What options do you have set in the device toolbar?
Please select "Audio device info" from the Audacity Help menu and copy/paste the information into your reply.