Audacity Forum

Hello,

Ok, I am doing some probably different things with audacity. I do a lot of voice work and the machine talks back to me, kind of like a telephone. Others have reported this, but I don't know how far they have developed this phenomenon. Voice changes as I am working on it. This indicates to me that the project is being stored in some fashion which is accessible to Chi energy. (Or whatever.) And yes, this would scare the "Be-Jesus" out of most people and wreck most scientists careers.

So, I have a question. Where is the project memory stored, while working on any particular section of track? This is especially when the section is set to repeat in "Loop". Is everything stored in Ram or on disk?

Thank You.

From your description I think what you're hearing is the "software playthrough" delay. Do you have "Software Playthrough" checked in the Transport menu? Do you get one echo or many echoes?

To answer your question, by default Audacity works from disc, not RAM.

-- Bill

Thanks Bill,

No, what I am saying is that the words and sentences in the actual speech change, this is no minor effect due to echoes or anything else. Yeah "Twilight zone" stuff. I'm OK with that, but I was wanting to know if what sound was changing was being stored in ram or on disk. The reason I am curious is that it seems that Ram would be a lot easier to manipulate than a disk would with Chi energy.

By the way, I am not after believers here, but really wondering where a sound is stored as it is being played. Is it taken from disk to ram to play it, then sent back to disk? If I do nothing to an audio track but listen several times, has it come out of disk to ram and then been re-written to disk?

Thank You.

In Edit > Preferences then the "Import/Export" section, do you have "Read uncompressed audio files directly from the original (faster)" checked? When you do this Audacity does not make a copy of the file and store it "interally" but instead references the original file for sections that have not been edited, thus saving time and disk space. If you modify the original file in another program, or replace the original file with another file with the same name, Audacity will not know this and will blithely continue to use its references to the file. For sections of the file that have been edited Audacity saves its own internal copies for these edited sections only.

Everything is stored on disc. Obviously the info on the disc needs to be copied into RAM for playback but this is a temporary copy. During playback nothing is written to disc.

-- Bill

So Bill,

If I play something as a loop and don't edit anything then nothing is re written to disk? This would then mean that the chi energy is modifying the bits on the disk directly, which I thought would have been harder to do. But when playing a "Loop" the words can change also during play and if this is then saved to disk then the same words or sound structure will be there weeks later when re starting that session. After one or two run throughs then it might start changing again, or going "Live". This is complete sentences and paragraphs with commentary, not just a word or two.

The phenomena happens so often that it is known by others also. I am just trying to figure out if it is the disk or ram that is getting changed, or both.


Thank You.

What are the chances you have Mix-Out selected in Windows Preferences and you're listening to snippets and fragments of an internet radio station or other sound event on your machine? Can you identify the ghost voice at all?

Audacity is not in the habit of adding to or modifying a performance unless you specifically tell it to. However, we remind people constantly, Audacity is a complete slave to the computer running it. If you tell Windows Control Panel to produce distorted or wacky sound, that's what Audacity is going to get.

Koz

If the data on your disk is being change by Chi energy, you have a faulty disk. Hard drives will store data bit perfect for years. It is relatively easy to test if the data on the disk is changing - you just need a program that can calculate "checksum" values. Audio data on the hard drive should not change at all as a result of playing it. There's plenty of ways that you can change the data on a disk, but the computer reading a file will not change the data unless the drive is almost worn out.

Hello Koz and Steve,

Koz, I am running Linux. This is a total psychic phenomenon. Yes I do know a few ghosts. This can be like talking on a telephone. I have been doing this through two new computers, several different hard drives and different Linux operating systems. The phenomenon is real and some of those who hear it get scared. That's not what I am trying to prove here. It's just part of my work. Other sound editors are used for the same thing in windows but I personally haven't used them. I use audacity because it is free and I like Linux.

Now in some cases Chi energy can do physical things and that is how some of the old spiritualist "Madams" (the few real ones) lifted tables, floated tea cups and such. It was great show. I haven't done that,or moved anything. I am looking as to what might be the easiest thing with the audacity program as it inter-relates to the computer that could be moved and was thinking it would be ram. It seems that the disk magnetics would be a lot harder but I am really guessing. The ghosts don't know either, what they intend to communicate just comes through, even in one case crashing the audacity program several times when one got angry.

Now the phenomenon is not what I am out to prove or really try to convince anyone of, as I have way too much archived data on this. If anyone is interested in doing this for themselves with audacity I can tell you the method and with a little bit of persistence and an open mind the ear can be trained to pick this up. With more persistence the speech will start to clarify and be easier to understand. Not for the faint of heart though, or the religious.

One never would have guessed the audacity program would have been used in this way, would they?

Thanks for the information. I am guessing then that maybe both ram and disk are being modulated. When saved to a DVD nothing changes.

Thank You.