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Many of these tools will not work if the music was purchased with FairPlay® copy protection -- as many iTunes songs are. The traditional way around this is to burn a Music CD with iTunes and then use CDex to rip the CD. You can also use the Self-Recording feature of your machine to record on Audacit...

I want to convert itunes music to a WAV file to use in a youtube video but i dont know how to use CDex. it wont let me add any music to the artist search bar.

... of the computer. I've read some postings on other message boards from people who have had the same problem. The responses I've read have been no help to me.

... Does someone know why this happened? And what can I do to merge these files into one so that I can use the material on it? Am thankful for any help!

Ok, here was the problem: I did: 1) RoomBoom 2) Muffle 3) Leveller. When I turned on "show clipping", I was getting clipped all over the place, even though it sounds fine, and the soundwave does not cross outside the boundaries. http://i47.tinypic.com/2ufd8wy.jpg I started from scratch and...

Or someone holding a blanket over it.

That's not what the leveler does. You got something serious wrong. Do you have Show Clipping turned on?

What do think MP3 does to your sound?

That wasn't a fluffy question. It would be good to answer that.

Koz

Koz, Your settings made a huge improvement! You're awesome. Thanks for this. I duplicated and applied your RoomBoom and Muffle settings in order. (I also named them and saved them, as a starting point in the future.) However, the 3rd effect, the leveller didn't sound right. I picked the same as you ...

I did Analyze > Plot Spectrum and saw that the bass guitar and probably the kick drum were "ringing" in the room. They were much too loud in comparison to the rest of the show. That happens in certain clubs and it makes it almost impossible to record a show from the audience. You can't hea...

You don't have either one. They were both custom drawn for your show.

Both of those curves are going to change if you move to a different club -- or get a good audience.


What do think MP3 does to your sound?

Koz

First off, bundled copies of Audacity are often out of date old versions. You can check the version number in "Help menu > About Audacity". The current version is 2.0.2. If you have a different version, you can get the current version from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ ...