I’m not an expert at voice recordings but I have been using a couple of simple apps and I need to learn alot more because I want to good quality voice recordings of my work. I am an Open Uni student and I am always on the go. The only way I can get my studying done is to record all the study material … so then I can multitask. I have masses to read and if I read and record I can make best use of each reading session.
I would like to master Audacity … but at the moment I can’t even launch it without probs. The moment I click record … it stops responding!! The toolbar disappears!! Task Manager has no effect !! The ‘not responding’ state seems to last infinitely until I restart. I have left Audacity in the ‘not responding’ state for a whole weekend and still it was stuck in the state!!
I believe in Audacity … I think it will be a fab app one day … hope it will always remain freeware!! : )
I have lost hours of recording on the occasions when I managed to launch it successfully. I recorded and when it came to saving the file … all I did was click on Stop to stop the recording … that’s what you’re supposed to do to stop recording … ? right ? but it went into ‘not responding’ and when I restarted (Windows XP Home edition) there was no trace of my recording.
I cannot save in the Audacity format as I have read somewhere … I need the freedom to play my files on MP3 player, on pc, on my Laptop (which is Vista), on a ‘desktop stickies 6.5a’ application which is fab and versatile and needs .wav files for its alerts.
I’m sorry that nobody has replied to my post for help … but I found the Quick Help option from the Help menu on the toolbar very helpful. Although it didn’t say so but I tried going to Edit/Preferences/Directories/there I changed the folder that the temp files are stored in. Something went wrong, only a 1 minute portion of the recording was saved as MP3 on the folder on USB but doing things this way gave me choices of storing in various different folders.
I found all of my recording in a whole piece by right clicking Start/Explore/Program Files/Audacity 1.3 Beta/Modules
There I found my complete file … all in one piece but it was stored as an Audacity Project File. I have tried to save it in mp3 format on USB … I don’t know if I succeeded … can anyone tell me how they manage to store files in a required format to USB ? … I’m sure I’ve done it the loooong way … also, I found lots of pieces of my recording … I have no idea how I got to them but it was really upsetting … how can I stop Audacity breaking up my files like that ?
Thanx so much to anyone who posts help as I have a TMA deadlines and all this is taking too much time
If you want an audio file - WAV or MP3 - use “Export”, not “Save”.
“Save” will only save an Audacity project, which is a collection of data files (.au) under the control of a project file (.aup).
All those pieces you found are the data files. Dont move or delete any of them or your project will disappear!
Use the Post Reply button at the bottom of the page … then type message into the box and click Post Message … sometimes you need to find a post and reply to a reply … watch out for ‘jump to post’ links on the right side
As I said in my first post, I’m no recording expert but I just wanted to put up this little detail incase it helps because I keep forgetting and so much time is lost before I remember … with Audacity you have to remember which format the files were saved in.
To open files saved as project
file/open/go to where file was saved/files don’t show until you click ‘Files of type’ arrow for drop down menu and select Audacity projects/now all files saved as project files will show up/these can be opened and further recordings can be added to each file using cut and paste.
To open files saved as mp3
file/import/audio/go to file location/click file/ok
Audacity crashes alot if you don’t do things the Audacity way.