Audacity Forum

... a song from my laptop to place a new one in. I dont want to lose any of my music and I am at a total loss as what to do. Will someone please help me. I am not so smart with computors as my generation listened to 8 tracks (yep, I'm old). I've read all the instructions I can find and nothing ...

Hi Koz, thanks for your help. Here is the link to the CNET. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57449803-285/transferro-memorable-voice-mails-to-your-computer-with-a-simple-audio-trick/ After re-watching it I see I am suppose to use the ...

... into all of its many songs as separate tracks with their proper names so that I can export them all and burn them onto a CD. I appreciate all your help. Karen

I thought that Audacity could only work with 16-bit devices On Windows operating systems. (The 2.0.4 version of Audacity will support WASAPI as the host system which I think does support 24 bit) I believe that to be the case - but reports indicate that WASAPI in Audacity can be a bit flaky :( WC

Steve,

We had a major storm here and the power was out for a long time. I still have no internet at home and only an iPad with a poor cell contection for the web but no e-mail access. I'm not ignoring y'all <grin>!

... I'll allow me to check if my sound card (linked to a loudspeaker and a microphone) is working well. I hope it is possible. Thank you for your help ! Lyth (I'm french, so please, tell me if I made any mistake in this message. Moreover, if anything is missing in my description, please asked it)

waxcylinder wrote:I thought that Audacity could only work with 16-bit devices

On Windows operating systems.

(The 2.0.4 version of Audacity will support WASAPI as the host system which I think does support 24 bit)

I don't think we're concerned with the connection quality. We're concerned that the connection doesn't work at all. Koz

And is the underlying problem here that the Terratec DMX 6fire USB device is a 24-bit device - I thought that Audacity could only work with 16-bit devices unless you built your own Audacity with ASIO support :? Certainly my Edirol-UA-1EX USB soundcard will only work in 16-bit mode and not 24-bit (th...

Why are we recommending recording with Audacity set at 16-bit rather than its default 32-bit? If ballerina.toast is going to be doing any processing like noise-removal or amplification she/he will be better off working in Audacity's 32-bit mode and then down-sampling to 16-bit WAV or AIFF with shape...