Audacity Forum

"Yes, and they're good to go until you drop your phone/iPod into the toilet."
A good point, Koz. This is one reason why toilets have lids, which are intended to be closed when not in use. And of course, if you've never had someone break into your car and steal all your music, you might not realize just how vulnerable those bulky disks and tapes still are.

Might actually be CHEAPER to duplicate the digital files, than to duplicate the CDs and store 'em all someplace, too. Speaking of which, how are your eight-tracks holding up? <VBG>

toilets have lids, which are intended to be closed when not in use.

You don't keep your phone in your pants pocket, do you?

how are your eight-tracks holding up?

Only two left. When I drove from Washington DC to Los Angeles (for the last time), the Cadillac Seville had an 8-track. It worked, too. Both tapes are in the same box in the garage with the 8-track adapter so I could plug my portable CD player in. The CD player which would only work on the interstate highway if it was sitting on my lap.

Good times...

Koz

Now I find my Computer CD drive is playing up so I am unable to test the burning program.
Here in Germany there is a big social move to stop men urinating whilst standing up. My frau tried to put it on me, but I said that I'd sit down when she stood up. I mean give a man a fair go. Having said that, a couple of months ago I did drop my cellphone down the toilet,(don't ask). Funny enough I felt a strong sense of liberation, kind of like when I stood up to my wife,although in retrospect maybe I should have gone along with it.
Not wishing to persue the subject,but very often in urinals here, you see a transfer of a fly stuck to the bowl, and you are supposed to aim for it, I like that.
I remember those 8 track cassettes,back in the 70s I think. I guess that the single track system must have been more efficient. You folks seem a strange bunch to relate too, an oddly comfortable lot.
Kind Regards
Dave

I did drop my cellphone down the toilet,(don't ask). Funny enough I felt a strong sense of liberation...

A very heavy cellphone will do that. Also, you have to be careful not to walk in circles because you're now lighter on one side and you're not used to that.

...you are supposed to aim for it, I like that.

Goals are important. We assume that goes with the posted sign:
[Our aim is to keep this place clean. Your aim is appreciated.]

...an oddly comfortable lot.

That's good. Can I use that?

Koz

I have a friend who also did that. Kept the cell phone in his breast pocket and for some reason, bent over. I keep mine in the breast pocket sometimes (driving access) and the hip pocket other times, but I also try really hard to avoid the cheap pants with shallow hip pockets. North Face used to make some nice trip pants with 9" deep hip pockets, NOTHING crawls out of those by accident. And then someone got cheap and reduced them from 9" to 4"...accident time. Still, I haven't had anything fall INTO the toilet that way.

Obviously I'm using the toilet improperly.<G>

Some of you may remember the early cellphones ALL had a leash, wrist strap, or at least small fitting where one could be attached. Because the designers knew leashes are how you avoid dropping expensive things on the floor. Or your pistol in the snow, if you're a Mountie. Now, even the basic fitting to attach a leash has been removed, in order to promote replacement sales. Yes, they really were removed on purpose.

But really, don't you need the heavy cell phone in one pocket, to counterbalance the weight of the dozen CDs in the other? <VBG>

And of course, if you're using Google Music...It invisibly uploads all of your music "to the cloud" so you can listen to it from anything with an internet connection. No charge. Lost the phone? No problem, the next one can still access all the music, and sync it up for local copy as well.

Hi Folks,

I managed to burn the wav files to CD and it all works well.

Maybe I should start a new thread but my problem now is, I find that if I record an album and try to skip a track, it will always go back to the beginning. It will not skip individual tracks backwards or forwards. Does anybody have a take on this.
Kind Regards
Dave in Germany

Kiddorrigo wrote:I managed to burn the wav files to CD and it all works well.

Maybe I should start a new thread but my problem now is, I find that if I record an album and try to skip a track, it will always go back to the beginning. It will not skip individual tracks backwards or forwards. Does anybody have a take on this.

I deleted your other post which you attached to another topic.

In that post you asked

How can I put a label at the front of each song? When I record an album from a cassette I don't get a list of songs to work with,there is just a graphic thing where I cut the start and end off

Have you read this http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... html#split or this http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sp ... racks.html ?

Are you talking about the CD player skipping tracks? Did you burn the WAV files to CD as separate tracks?



Gale

Hi Gale,

Thank You for your response.

In answer to your two questions.

Q1) Are you talking about the CD player skipping tracks?

I think I need to get the CD to skip tracks, if it was the player that skipped tracks I guess it would have worked just like any other CD.


Q2) Did you burn the WAV files to CD as separate tracks?

What I did was, started record on Audacity, then switched on my cassette player. At the end of the track I stopped Audacity, cut the beginning and ends of the blue wavy line to clean it up and then saved it as a Wav file(the other folks here, put me right on that one) I burned it to CD as the complete tape,I guess 45 minutes or something.

It worked as a CD, and I was quite chuffed with myself. I even impressed my wife and kids,which was a real buzz.

But being able to skip tracks takes it to another level of complexity. I find the Audacity programme a bit scary. There are words and phrases that I have never heard before. And the introduction didn't seem too easy to follow.

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I will now try the links you sent me and see if I can make sense of them.


Thank You
Warm Regards
Dave

Dave, if you saved an Audacity file as one wav file there are no 'tracks'. One Audacity file exported as one wav file is just one track. To get multiple tracks you need to set multiple marks in Audacity then export the whole batch as multiple wav files and burn the resulting group of files to a CD.
Sorry if some of my terms aren't quite exact, no Audacity here to refer to.

I am not a music engeneer either. when i do a tape or LP i play one SONG at a time, trim it at front and back and then export it as either a .wav or .mp3 file. then i use the cd burner to burn all of songs to the CD. That way i do not have to record any of the songs that i do not want. I don't know about you but as much as i like certian artist i do not like all of thier songs. so my CD's are just of the songs that i want to hear