I am trying to record from stereo mix by playing music through wmp and recording it with Audacity. Every few minutes, wmp will hesitate and leave a ~.01second period of silence, which I know can usually be caused by doing too much other stuff on your computer while playing music, but the thing is, the computer isn't doing anything else. I would just use the silence finder, but it finds many false positives when the silence is that short, because some silence is part of the actual music. Is wmp bad about this? Is there a better .wma player out there that won't do this?
Thanks.
Oh, btw. It's from the HD, not a cd.
WMP hesitates
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The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
Re: WMP hesitates
I am also having a small problem here: I set the silence finder to find silence of a minimum of .08 seconds, less than .001 decibels. I attached an image. Notice that the silence was not detected, but a part that wasn't silent was detected. What gives? I also set it to put the marker 0s before silence ends. Thanks for any help.
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Re: WMP hesitates
You may find that many tools like Silence Finder work a lot better in Audacity 1.3 than in earlier 1.2. They've never worked well. You really need to find out what's really happening.
<<<I know can usually be caused by doing too much other stuff on your computer while playing music>>>
Yes, and that can hide in strange places. When was the last time you degragged your hard drives? You do have two internal ones, right, not just one? Most complicated captures like this benefit greatly from having the programs on one drive and the songs on the other.
Do you have an external USB hard drive connected? They're notorious for screwing up live captures. Go FireWire if you can--or disconnect the externals while you're working.
You're running Windows. Windows is not a multi-tasking operating system. OS-X and Linux will both let you start playing a sound file while it's being recorded--effectively opening up both ends of a sound file at the same time. Windows would rather die than let you do that.
Audacity is a very simple sound editor and it likes very much to be running on a very simple machine. For the same reason you can't have two Audacity's running at the same time, it's usually a bad idea to have two different programs stepping on sound services at the same time--see: Windows. They don't Play Well With Others. Sooner or later they're both going to want the same services at the same time and Windows is going to have to stop for a split second and figure it out.
Most people record internet audio by playing it in the browser and arrange the Windows Sound Panels so Audacity will record Mix-Out or whatever it's called now.
Koz
<<<I know can usually be caused by doing too much other stuff on your computer while playing music>>>
Yes, and that can hide in strange places. When was the last time you degragged your hard drives? You do have two internal ones, right, not just one? Most complicated captures like this benefit greatly from having the programs on one drive and the songs on the other.
Do you have an external USB hard drive connected? They're notorious for screwing up live captures. Go FireWire if you can--or disconnect the externals while you're working.
You're running Windows. Windows is not a multi-tasking operating system. OS-X and Linux will both let you start playing a sound file while it's being recorded--effectively opening up both ends of a sound file at the same time. Windows would rather die than let you do that.
Audacity is a very simple sound editor and it likes very much to be running on a very simple machine. For the same reason you can't have two Audacity's running at the same time, it's usually a bad idea to have two different programs stepping on sound services at the same time--see: Windows. They don't Play Well With Others. Sooner or later they're both going to want the same services at the same time and Windows is going to have to stop for a split second and figure it out.
Most people record internet audio by playing it in the browser and arrange the Windows Sound Panels so Audacity will record Mix-Out or whatever it's called now.
Koz