Recording Quality

[stingray]

Hi wc / koz,
I tried exporting as wav directly from Audacity to the external h/d but was stopped from doing so by the message that I did not have the permission of the Administrator. That's weird as I thought I was the Administrator as its my computer. So what I ended up doing was to export the project as wav to my desktop first then from there send it to the external h/d. That worked well did not take long at all then as you said delete the copy on the desktop. It also works fine with mp3. The ogg vorbis is an interesting format but if I burn a cd disc it only
plays in the computer not on a portable mp3 player, I thought I read somewhere ogg vorbis would function well in an mp3 disc player. At the end of the day I don't need that format. Thanks guys no doubt I will find some other problem or question that needs sorting.
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[whomper]

sounds like your pc is overloaded.
turn off all internet and comm software.
turn off all virus software.
turn off all unneeded services.
close down all other programs.
stop anything from autostarting that you do not need.

there are a couple of sites that will give you a checklist of all the crud that needs to be stripped out to make sure your pc does not have problem processing audio in real time.

now if you are also using an external audio interface that may be causing delays. some can be near real time, some just are too slow. read the manual with the external devices to see what they say to do.

[stingray]

hi whomper, I do have a lot of stuff chugging away in the back ground messing up my real time speed etc. They should make things easier to switch off, or disable. There is probably more power diverted to these things than what goes to Audacity. I thought about disconnecting the
Broadband to see how thing s turn out. I don't really like switching off the antivirus stuff but there again if the internet is off that would make it alright I expect. Will try all that when I have some free time to experiment.
stingray