Audacity Forum

... 1.3.13 and Lame and things are working fine - opening wavs fine, converting to mp3 fine. I'm a very very happy bunny now. Thank you for your help. Gordon

Hi again Koz,
OK, wav files do play fine in Quicktime.
Does that help at all?
I have LameLib on my computer
All has been working fine for years until yesterday.
If you have any ideas I'd be very happy to hear them.
Thanks,
Gordon

... necessary) as I've used for years (currently Audacity 1.2.6). I will try what you suggested re Quicktime and post my results. Thanks for your help. Gordon

... using Undo and have looked all through the settings to see if I accidentally changed something or set something, but can't find anything. Please help me figure out how to return to the standard behaviour, where Generate Silence merely silences a selected section, and copied text can be inserted. ...

record plays has noise, in Audacity just thin blue line & nothing else. Turned volume up on player , nothing, turned volume up in audacity still only thin blue. No recording in audacity.
Hope you can help.
Thanks
Darkie

If you really are using Audacity 1.2 (you posted in the 1.2 forum) then you should probably stop. Audacity 1.2 doesn't get along well with modern Macs. If you install Audacity 1.3 and get the FFMpeg add-on, then you might be able to open the M4A files directly. Trash this preference file: Go > Home ...

Can you open them in QuickTime Player?
Control-Click > Open With > QuickTime
Koz

Since earlier today I can no longer open wav files in audacity (even ones I had opened earlier in the day). The result when trying to open wavs is that they seem to take the normal amount of time to 'load' but when they appear they do not look like waveforms but like pale blue rectangles that sound ...

Perfect. Nicely written, easy-to-follow instructions. Sorry I missed them before (and all those previous posts on the same subject). All links work for Quick Help and the Manual. Thanks!

Dear Trebor, Yeah, I did it (with a little help from my friends)! Believe it or not, this is advanced stuff for me :) I've been wanting a reverb program for my music that I can actually use (not being an audio engineer), and I think the Anwida ...