Newbie questions

[sredmyer]

I have several (~2000) micro-cassettes of interviews that I have recorded to wav files. To minimize the time required to record all of these I recorded them at double speed. I have figured out how to use the Audacity's Change Speed effect to correct the audio speed which works well. With help from another user on another forum I also figured out how to create a "Chain" to correct the speed and convert the wav files to mp3 for all files in a batch job. There is however one thing I have not been able to figure out...how do I specifiy where I want the final product (the mp3 file) to be placed? It seems that the file is by default placed in a sub-folder of the source folder (which is created as needed by the batch job) named "cleaned".

I also have another issue. I can not get Audacity (beta version 1.3.9) to work on my desktop PC (running WinXP Pro SP3). It installs and runs but all audio is badly managled when playing through Audacity. I know there are no issues with the files or the PC as WMP plays them just fine. I can not imagine what the problem might be as I have also installed on my laptop (also WinXP Pro SP3) where it (Audacity) works flawlessly on the same files.

Can anyone help with these issues?

Thanks,
Steve

[sredmyer]

Ok, I figured out the second issue on my own. The issue with the mangled audio has to do with how I use that PC. I typically utilize the desktop PC via RDP from my laptop. For some reason when Audacity is used this way the audio gets mangled. Not sure why this would be because other audio programs do not have problems playing the audio through the RDP connection. Like I have said, I can play the same audio files using WMP via the same setup (RDP’d to my laptop) without issue.

Anyone have any ideas why audio from Audacity would be any different than audio from any other app?

Thanks,
Steve

[kozikowski]

I'll put you down as another person trying to run Audacity over a network. I don't believe it's worked yet. Audacity doesn't know how to deal with network delays and packet management.

Koz