Recorded Facebook Bleeps

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello

I have just recorded a really nice 3 hour mix but it seems Audacity recorded Facebook bleeps which it has never previously done, which is kind of annoying.

Any idea why it might have done that?

I know next time to close any such offending websites when recording. I would like to release this mix publicly though.

Also is there a way to edit them out? I have never tried editing before so would be a total beginner. Or is it just impossible?

Thanks
James

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Audacity recording “too much” stuff on Windows can mean you’re recording from Stereo-Mix and not a specific sound device like USB microphone or mixer. This can happen if the last thing you recorded was YouTube or other internet sound.

The usual complaint is having the dog barking in the mix because the laptop microphone went live by accident. Stereo Mix is “Anything on the Computer.”

Set that in the Audacity Device Toolbar.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html

You can also set it in
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording.

Koz

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You can cut out the bad sound as long as it happened during silent parts of the show. If you have music and bad sound at the same time, you’re dead.

Koz

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Also is there a way to edit them out? I have never tried editing before so would be a total beginner. Or is it just impossible?

You can chop then out or mute them, but you won’t be able to remove them without removing (or seriously damaging) the audio underneath.

Where is that “3 hour mix” coming from? If you are recording streaming audio or “what you hear”, you are going to get everything coming over the computer’s speakers. If you are recording from line-input or from a USB audio interface, etc., you shouldn’t be getting those beeps.

It’s also a bad idea to be multitasking while recording… You can get “glitches” or other problems because although you may have more than one CPU core, you have only one data bus and you can’t really control what those CPUs are doing. (There is always some multitasking going-on in the background, even if you are only running one application.) If the CPU/operating system doesn’t get back around to reading the audio buffer in time, you’ll get buffer overflow and a “glitch”.

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You can multi-task all you want, just not on that machine.

Do you have other mixed published? Where?

Koz

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You seem to be able to turn most of the off via your FaceBook settings - but for the life of me I can’t find where to turn of the bleep from an incoming FB PM (FB email).

WC