Help for Audacity on Windows.
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Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help 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
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Gunnar
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by Gunnar » Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:21 pm
daveleonard wrote:I am using Win 7 Ultimate.
When I try to record music from YouTube I do not get a wave form. My exported files are all blank with the sound of static. I have both RealTek and Any Soft Virtual sound. I have tried setting both in Audacity but nothing works. The results always the same. I do not think it is recording with no wave form.
For what reason are you trying to
record the audio from Youtube anyway?
You can simply
download the Youtube clip (there's like a zillion of Firefox add-on's for this purpose), as FLV or MP4 file, and then
demultiplex the audio stream from the file, using
FLV Extract or
MP4Box, respectively.
This is a 100% lossless process (it cannot do the lossy audio compression that Youtube has already applied though), so it will give you the best possible audio quality.
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:36 pm
Gunnar wrote:daveleonard wrote:I am using Win 7 Ultimate.
When I try to record music from YouTube I do not get a wave form. My exported files are all blank with the sound of static. I have both RealTek and Any Soft Virtual sound. I have tried setting both in Audacity but nothing works. The results always the same. I do not think it is recording with no wave form.
For what reason are you trying to
record the audio from Youtube anyway?
You can simply
download the Youtube clip (there's like a zillion of Firefox add-on's for this purpose), as FLV or MP4 file
Yes we said that twice already.
Gunnar wrote:and then
demultiplex the audio stream from the file, using
FLV Extract or
MP4Box, respectively.
That is the best solution, but the user has FFmpeg already, so the easier solution if he downloads the video is to just drag the video into Audacity then export it in the chosen format. If he exports to WAV or FLAC he does not lose quality, but ends up with a larger file then demultiplexing the original audio.
Or of course use -acodec copy in FFmpeg by running it at the command-line.
Gale
