Audacity Forum

Thank you for the clarifications, Trebor. I really appreciate all this. I can now apply all your edits in a matter of seconds, in the right order. I really feel empowered to improve crappy live recordings in a big way. To practice a little, I will apply each of your edits one at a time, and make sur...

a high end Dell machine that was not wanted by someone else

Because they couldn't get it to work, either? Koz

Look at the back of the computer and see if you don't have more than one set of Blue, Green, and Pink connections, one on the soundcard and the other maybe on the cabinet or backplate. That's your clue that you have two sets of "soundcard" and you might be able to take the fancy one out an...

... asking you whether or not you want to do a "clean" install? An Audacity "plain install" preserves the preferences system so to help when you upgrade. This can cause serious problems if you have damaged Preferences. The damage migrates through each install. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#exe

... dialogue, instead of reducing the esses it basically gives me a track with only esses in it. Did I mess up the settings? Thanks so much for your help. Computer specs and software settings are: Running Audacity 2.0.2 Windows 7 PC with Core i5 processor 4 gigs ram Recording through Logitech headset ...

Joining the chorus here. I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.2 and installed Audacity from the dmg. I'm having trouble exporting as an MP3. (LAME was downloaded from the dmg) I get the message "Unable to open target file for writing." Am also relatively new to MAC (2 1/2 mo) and still learning. I've r...

... has batteries. The computer worked just fine with the ipod, which I think eliminates the computer as a variable. Any additional suggestions of help?

... can't find it - Every time I install the last screen says launch now and that is checked but when I hit finish nothing happens - Can anyone please help me - I virus scanned the computer and it is clean.

@pedrosilva: see the link that Bill posted earlier in this thread.

Thanks for your question. When I recorded a file on the audacity program, the program created a folder with the name I gave and with the extension xxx_data, and created a sub folder within this folder d00 and e00. In this file the audacity turned this one audio file into 70 e00 files with the same d...