Audacity Forum

Oscar, 1000 ms audio to buffer is quite high. I guess you could increase it but I'm beginning to doubt it would help. A "crash" explicitly means a program exits of its own accord. A "hang" means the program ceases to respond so that the user has to force quit ...

... sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/audacity That will give you permissions to read and execute on the directory usr/local/lib/audacity. It may help Audacity recognise the dylib file assuming you have already installed it. If that doesn't help, then you will need to go through extra hoops, one ...

... it automatically appears on both left and right of the stereo show. The "Comp" control on the mixer is an on-the fly compressor to help suppress loud sounds and overloads -- always a problem when you record live. So I don't think you can do the stereo trick with this mixer. The ...

... I even clicked the tab for "input/mic" from the Windows prompt and still nothing. This is the first time this ever happened. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

... tape Players (devices) to record From. Constant problems of ticking, humming or other noise while recording. Any Audacity settings I change don't help. I'm Not blaming Audacity for the problems. It's the equipment or something else causing problems. I would like Device info. Meaning what external ...

... after starting to record or after longer? Have you got "Audio Cache" enabled in the Directories Preferences? In principle that might help with skips (if you still had them) because it records to RAM rather than the drive and writing to RAM is faster than writing to a drive. However ...

... of Audacity? It would mean learning a new system, but perhaps that would be good for my skillset as well as my brain! Thanks, everyone! Your help is much appreciated. :-) ~ Jean

Have you seen the instructions on this page: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

... to hear myself. How can I solve this? I found some threads on the internet about this but they go way too technical for me. I hope somebody can help me with step-by-step-dummy talk :lol:. Was the original problem just "always too quiet", or were you getting short parts of good volume ...

What sort of microphone are you using and how is it connected to the computer?