Exporting Songs

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I use win 10 and audacity 2.

  1. When I record, there are no waves, just a rough blue horizontal line that might be trying to become a wave.
  2. When say, 3 songs are finished and I get ready to export by right clicking the mouse and holding it down after “skipping to start”, how far do I know to move the mouse to the right so I get the three songs and not a lot of empty recording when I export? In other words, do I have to watch the time it played and guess at how far and long to hold the curser?

Thanks for your help in this for a newbie.

nby

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What are you recording? Where’s the show coming from?

What is the full number of Audacity? There is no Audacity 2. The current one is 2.1.2.

You can use the blue waves to steer yourself to the beginning and end of the songs.

If yours don’t look like that, then there’s something wrong.

Koz

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I’m using Audacity 2.0 which is what I got with the cassette converter.
I’m playing commercial songs from a cassette. The blue line I get is nothing like the one you show in amplitude as it is just a rough single line.
Should I uninstall Audacity 2.0 and download the latest version from internet? Even with 2.0, shouldn’t I be getting the blue line like you showed? I suspect I have something wrong in the way I set it up.

nby

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I’m using Audacity 2.0 which is what I got with the cassette converter.

I assume that’s a cassette player with a USB port?

Make sure you’ve selected the USB device as your [u]Recording Device[/u].

Should I uninstall Audacity 2.0 and download the latest version from internet?

Yes. That’s probably not the cause of your problem. but it’s easier for us to help each other if we’re all using the exact-same software. And since it’s open source, there are unofficial versions floating-around. Download it from [u]AudacityTeam.org[/u].

We’re not all using the same hardware, but we have to deal with that.