Garbled audio in playback with Macbook

[kozikowski]

You are measuring just your processes not all of them. Note in my illustration, I had it set to All Processes.

Does this tell you anything useful with Audacity?

That's the super-duper high speed internal memory and that looks normal. If you start getting 4GB left on your system drive, that could be very serious.

Desktop > Go > Computer. Control-Click on the system drive (attached 1) > Get INFO.
You're looking for Capacity and Available numbers (attached 2).

This is my "office machine." I wouldn't dream of doing heavy audio (or video) production with available numbers that low.

Now that you closed Chrome, Are your problems still there?

Koz

[steve]

Have you tried this possible solution: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... mac_buffer

[kozikowski]

It's possible, but I thought the buffer thing was for recording where the machine had bad or ratty control over drive/memory during real time demands.

"The cello solo is continuing to pour in, but the hard drive is off polishing the silverware. We need to put the sound somewhere."

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

It's possible, but I thought the buffer thing was for recording where the machine had bad or ratty control over drive/memory during real time demands.

The buffer problem is primarily but not exclusively a playback problem. That is why it is in the Playback section of the FAQ's.


Gale