installation and importing and recording

[rosa]

Hello

As can be seen I have three problems (well, four):
1 - Audacity 1.3.3 beta does not install as an App but as a disk in my new Mac Air MacOS 10.6.8. Must go to the folder inside Applications everytime to open it. Once open, it goes into the mac Dock and does not open from there.
2 - Cannot open Audacity projects created with an Audacity 1.3.3 beta installation in my Windows Vista and/or XP
3 - Audacity interface in my new Mac Air is different and I cannot access some of the features because they are not visible.
4 - cannot record a file playing from the web (ivoox) because Audacity 1.3.3. beta installed in my mac does not show any other device for recording than the built-in microphone. in the version installed in my pc laptop Windows XP, Audacity shows 5 different input options for recording (one of them, "mezcla de salida de onda", the one used to record from the web, and god only knows why the drop down list doesn't show that list in English while the menu bar en everything else is in English).

And by the way, the Audacity version installed in my desktop PC, Window vista does not show either the 5 input recording options.

thanks a lot for your help!

rosa

[kozikowski]

I may have to take these as I get time.

1. What you are intended to do is Control-Click on your desktop > New Folder called Audacity1.3.3. I hope you mean 1.3.13. Audacity 1.3.3 is not as stable as the newest version.

Open the installer "drive" you got from the download and collect the contents of the drive and dump them all into your new folder.

Drag that folder to Applications. Open the folder and drag the Audacity orange headphone file into your dock. Go back and clean up the installer drive and everything else you did before that didn't work right.

The icon in the dock should open the program.

More as I get a minute.

Koz

[kozikowski]

This is my applications folder...

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Your installer "drive" should not be in the applications folder. I have my Mac show me file extensions so my applications all read like "audacity.app." Normal Macs don't do that.

Koz

[rosa]

thank you. This worked so far. No more audacity "drive", so far, and now it opens from the dock!

Yes, I meant 1.3.13, sorry about the mistake!

Waiting for more ) thanks a lot

rosa

[kozikowski]

2 - Cannot open Audacity projects created with an Audacity 1.3.3 beta installation in my Windows Vista and/or XP

We tell people you can't move Projects because it's Not Simple. You have to move the AUP file, the _data folder and all its contents and all the music files you used in the show and their original locations and folders.

That and Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2. At all.

If you just need the music to go from here to there, your far better exporting a WAV sound file and use that. WAV format was chosen because the world's three major computers types open them. Will WAV files do it for you? If not there are settings in Audacity to eliminate the external folders requirement.

Koz

[kozikowski]

Recording Sound Playing on Your Computer is a zoo. Macs have never been able to do this without software or hardware help and only the older Windows machines can still do this reliably.

Macs have a software package called SoundFlower that allows the extra sound pathways to provide (for example) YouTube sound for recording.

Windows machines have "Stereo Mix" (or equivalent) hidden or, on some machines, missing altogether, It's impossible to tell which machine you have without looking. If you have one of those cool machines that won't do this at all, then you have no choice but to go the Hardware route, or the additional Windows software.

None of this has anything to do with Audacity. The sound pathways have to be provided by the Operating System/Computer. If they're not, that's the end of the story.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

The Windows people have another software package that came up recently. I need to go look.

Koz

[rosa]

Thanks!! trying out WAW files. See if that works. As for sound, I downloaded Sound Flower, only have to figure out how to install and see if it works.

And I though that working with Mac would be easier! Looks like I have to go through a long learning period for that )

thanks again

rosa