I’m working on a project and Audacity is driving me crazy. I have something that I recorded and am trying to copy/paste into another project. It sounds high quality in the original Audacity project, but when I copy/paste it into the new project, it sounds like it loses quality (it pops, clicks, or hums). As far as I can tell, the quality should be the exact same (the settings are exactly the same… both project rates are 44100hz, 32-bit, etc), and I can’t figure out why it won’t paste in the same quality as the original.
OK… I have found somewhat of a fix. My tracks are ideally supposed to overlap, but they aren’t always playing simultaneously. If I generate silence on the other tracks, that seems to remove the popping and low quality…
Rather than copy and pasting between projects, try exporting your recordings as WAV files, then you can just “Import” them into one project. Audacity can work with multiple projects open at the same time, but it is rarely a good way of working.
Rather than copy and pasting between projects, try exporting your recordings as WAV files, then you can just “Import” them into one project.
I tried doing this in a variety of different formats… even importing “raw”… and it didn’t seem to make a difference. So far, the only solution I’ve found is to “generate silence”. But it doesn’t seem to be a problem in other places in the project, or with other audio clips. I don’t really understand why it’s an issue in some places in the project and not others.
Have you recently upgraded to Mavericks?
I am using Mavericks, but I wouldn’t say it was a recent upgrade…
Recent upgrade or not, some Mac users - especially on MacBook Pro - find audio issues after having upgraded to Mavericks from previous OS X. Reinstalling Mavericks sometimes helps.
If one or more tracks have audio that starts at time zero, ensuring those tracks are at the top of the project may help (or be more convenient than generating silence.
You didn’t say what version of Audacity you have - look at Audacity > About Audacity… . If you have 2.0.4 or 2.0.5, quit that version and try 2.0.2 from https://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-macosx-ub-2.0.2.zip . It’s quite likely 2.0.2 won’t have that issue. Let us know.
Can we change the topic title to something more relevant, assuming copy/paste is not the issue?
