Strange sound
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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henrikhall
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Re: Strange sound
The recording I am trying to save, is a rather plain rock song, written, performed and recorded together with some friends in the middle of the 80s. I am playing it from the very same cassette tape that we transferred it to back then. True, the sound quality on the cassette is not exactly brilliant, to say the least, but on all other devices than this computer, it works.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Strange sound
Do you have a mobile phone? If so can you record the cassette from the speaker of the cassette player and post that recording?henrikhall wrote:The recording I am trying to save, is a rather plain rock song, written, performed and recorded together with some friends in the middle of the 80s. I am playing it from the very same cassette tape that we transferred it to back then. True, the sound quality on the cassette is not exactly brilliant, to say the least, but on all other devices than this computer, it works.
Is the recording you already attached complete? Or are there large dropouts (pieces missing)?
Gale
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kozikowski
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Re: Strange sound
We know what many common errors sound like and this isn't any of them. That and it's so badly distorted we can't work it back using guesswork. And we're trying to do this across multiple time zones.
We do very well, but we don't solve all problems. Is there someone there who can help?
Koz
We do very well, but we don't solve all problems. Is there someone there who can help?
Koz
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henrikhall
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Re: Strange sound
Thanks so much all of you for the help you have tried to extend. Even though the problem is yet to be fully understood and solved, you have certainly helped me think and diagnose. I am pretty sure now that the problem lies with my Mac computer, thus out of scope for this forum. I will discuss it with my local Mac store and if they have no clue either, I will just stick to my older computer, which is able to do the job for me. Many, many thanks!