Audacity

is their anyway to seperate the music from the voice?

dmwhite wrote:

> is their anyway to seperate the music from the voice?


Sometimes.  It depends a lot on the recording.


Audacity doesn't have any built-in features to help you
do this.  If you search the web for "Vocal Remover", you'll
find that there are a few programs which do this.

A future version of Audacity might have some features
which will do this, too.

- Dominic

Can I use Audacity to take more than one .wav or .mp3 files and splice =
them together into one large file? If so, can you tell me how this is =
done?

Thanks

B ruce Epstein

On Jan 22, Bruce Epstein, M.D. wrote:

> Can I use Audacity to take more than one .wav or .mp3 files and splice
> them together into one large file?

Yes.  Just open a new Audacity project, then import each sound file.  You
can position the tracks so that they overlap, using the envelope tool to
do cross-fading, or you can just copy each track and paste it onto the end
of another.

You can then export the result as a WAV or MP3 file.

hi im interested in audacity, id like to know if it does the tracks normalization (to clinch such as audiograbber...)
tnx bye

-- 
LINUX USER #250527

On Feb 4, nerula wrote:

> hi im interested in audacity, id like to know if it does the tracks
> normalization (to clinch such as audiograbber...)

Audacity does not have advanced normalization features like Audiograbber
(batch operation, mean volume, configurable thresholds).

You can perform simple normalization using Audacity's "Amplify" effect.
The Amplify dialog box lets you specify a desired peak volume.  By default
it normalizes to 0 db (100% volume).

hi, I am a mac user and I have the latest version of Audacity. I am 
trying to split a large mp3 into shorter mp3s. Does it really take over 
an hour to import a 16000 k file in order to manipulate it?

Thanks

-- 
Irving G. Steinberg
mailto:irving@...
http://www.planetirving.com
"The grooviest planet in the galaxy"

On Jul 4, Irving Steinberg wrote:

> hi, I am a mac user and I have the latest version of Audacity. I am
> trying to split a large mp3 into shorter mp3s. Does it really take over
> an hour to import a 16000 k file in order to manipulate it?

No, it shouldn't take that long.  There may be a conflict with one of the
extensions on your system (if you are using MacOS 9).  You can try restarting
with only the MacOS base extensions to see if this solves the problem.  If you
can discover anything about which extension might trigger the problem, that
could help us fix it.

Thanks for the report.

Matt Brubeck wrote:
>>hi, I am a mac user and I have the latest version of Audacity. I am
>>trying to split a large mp3 into shorter mp3s. Does it really take over
>>an hour to import a 16000 k file in order to manipulate it?
> 
> No, it shouldn't take that long.  There may be a conflict with one of the
> extensions on your system (if you are using MacOS 9).  You can try restarting
> with only the MacOS base extensions to see if this solves the problem.  If you
> can discover anything about which extension might trigger the problem, that
> could help us fix it.
> 
> Thanks for the report.

I'd also like to point out that Audacity currently doesn't have any
option for editing files without decompressing the whole file first.
That's why it takes so long (although if you have certain extensions,
such as Norton FileGuard, it will take longer than it should...).

You may want to investigate Audion.  I think it supports some basic
MP3 editing, and it's a good all-around MP3 player anyway, worth
the shareware fee.

- Dominic

bonjour,
    je n'arrive pas =E0 t=E9l=E9charger votre logiciel . pouvez vous =
m'expliquer pourquoi ?
            merci
V=E9ronique F.

Hello!

thanks a for a wonderful product.

Is there any way to change the Tempo of tracks with or without =
changing pitch (and vice versa)

thanks!

walter

On Sep 12, Walter T. Chang wrote:

> Is there any way to change the Tempo of tracks with or without
> changing pitch (and vice versa)

Not yet.  We are working on these features for future versions.

I just installed Audacity for Mac OS 9. Is there any way I can retrieve =
files from iTunes? Also, is there a way to cut out a portion of a sound =
file and set it up so that particular cut out runs for infinity (at least =
until I turn it off)? I have frog calls with narration, but I wanted to =
cut out the narration and run the calls for indefinite amounts of time.
Thanks
Adam

Audacity doesn't link to iTunes directly, but you can import an MP3
file that you created with iTunes no problem.

There currently isn't any looping feature, but you might be able to
achieve what you want using the "Echo" effect.  Cut out everything
except the frog, insert lots of silence at the end, select all, and
then apply an Echo effect with a decay of 1.0 and a delay roughly
equal to the length of the frog sound.  This will work better if
each frog sound fades out towards the end.

- Dominic

Adam Davis wrote:
> I just installed Audacity for Mac OS 9. Is there any way I can retrieve 
> files from iTunes? Also, is there a way to cut out a portion of a sound 
> file and set it up so that particular cut out runs for infinity (at 
> least until I turn it off)? I have frog calls with narration, but I 
> wanted to cut out the narration and run the calls for indefinite amounts 
> of time.
> Thanks
> Adam

What is the best compression to be able to put it on CDR

On Oct 16, lkatz@... wrote:

> What is the best compression to be able to put it on CDR

If you want to play the CD-R in a standard CD player, you must create an
audio CD, which uses uncompressed audio.

For use with computers, Audacity supports two types of compression, MP3
and Ogg.  Both will give approximately CD-quality sound in about 10% of
the space of uncompressed audio.

Ogg is a more open format, not covered by patents.  It also has better
quality for most music, especially at 128kps and lower bitrates.
However, it is new and is not supported by many hardware players or by
older software players (needs the latest WinAmp, for example).

MP3 is very widely supported.  It is restricted by patents, but can be
used royalty-free for noncommercial and some commercial use.

I use Ogg for my own music collection, but would use MP3 if I needed to
share the files with other users who might not have Ogg software.

There are other free compression formats for other purposes, such as
FLAC (which creates larger files but does not degrade quality like Ogg
and MP3) and Speex (optimized for speech rather than music).  Audacity
does not support these directly; you will need to download a separate
compression program to use them.

Greetings,

I need to tell you about my work circumstances in order for you to =
advise me if your software is what I am looking for...please. I am =
running NT 4.0 on a PC.

I create multi-character audio dialogue tracks. 6 different people come =
to my studio and record the script lines of, let us say, 6 different =
characters in a script.

They do not do this all together in the script's unfolding sequence...I =
have to do each character..one at a time..with multiple takes on some =
sentences..until I get what I want from the dialogue talent.

This leaves me with 6 different wav files in Sound Forge...which I then =
have to cut and paste the takes I want from each of the 6 wav files into =
a master dialogue wav file.=20

I was wondering if your software has an "in/out" -wanted take- feature =
that would auto assemble all the wanted segments from the 6 different =
wav files and automatically glue them together (in the sequence/order =
that I specify) into the final assembled dialogue wav file? How much is =
the price for your software that will do this?

If your software does not do this...do you know of any which does?

Yours truly,

M. Yess

Hi,

Audacity has a few unique features, but overall not as many as
Sound Forge.  Unfortunately it doesn't have a feature that does
exactly what you want.

However, Audacity is free, so you have nothing to lose by
downloading it and giving it a try.

- Dominic





On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 02:20 PM, myess wrote:

> Greetings,
> =A0
> I need to tell you about my work circumstances in order for you to=20
> advise me if your software is what I am looking for...please. I am=20
> running NT 4.0 on a PC.
> =A0
> I create multi-character audio dialogue tracks. 6 different people=20
> come to my studio and record the script lines of, let us say, 6=20
> different characters in a script.
> =A0
> They do not do this all together in the script's unfolding=20
> sequence...I have to do each character..one at a time..with multiple=20=

> takes on some sentences..until I get what I want from the dialogue=20
> talent.
> =A0
> This leaves me with 6 different wav files in Sound Forge...which I=20
> then have to cut and paste the takes I want from each of the 6 wav=20
> files into a master dialogue wav file.
> =A0
> I was wondering if your software has an "in/out" -wanted take- feature=20=

> that would auto assemble all the wanted segments from the 6 different=20=

> wav files and automatically glue them together (in the sequence/order=20=

> that I specify) into the final assembled dialogue wav file? How much=20=

> is the price for your software that will do this?
> =A0
> If your software does not do this...do you know of any which does?
> =A0
> Yours truly,
> =A0
> M. Yess
> =A0
> =A0
> =A0
> =A0
> =A0
> =A0
> =A0

is there any way i can take a beat from one song and use a different vocals
and lyrics from a different song and mix them to together?
do you know what i mean?
if you have any questions please call me at 949-784-2738 or call
1-800-326-7114 ext 2738
thanks 
marcelo d 
 
 
 
 
 

"If you have further questions, please contact us at our 24hrs support 
(800)326-7114 or reply to my e-mail so that we may further assist you." 

Marcelo Deavila 

Senior Product Support Specialist 

marcelo.deavila@...  

Phone 949-271-5465 

Fax 949-265-6655 

Linksys

 <http://www.linksys.com/support/default.asp>
http://www.linksys.com/support/default.asp

 <http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp> 

Networkeverywhere 

 <http://www.networkeverywhere.com/support/>
http://www.networkeverywhere.com/support/

 <http://www.networkeverywhere.com/support/>  

 

 

 <http://www.networkeverywhere.com/dahwen.html>

hi, I just downloaded ur program, and I was wondering if there was a way =
to slow the music down. I talkin about bringing it from the normal speed, =
to a slower speed while keeping everything the same. thanks - jwj

Josh W. Judge
SHW Group Architects
4000 McEwen Rd. North
Dallas, TX 75244
972.361.2270 direct
972.701.0700 main
jwjudge@...

I downloaded Audacity and LameLib yesterday. I am having some trouble 
with my imac freezing up on me as well as working extremely slowly. 
Any ideas what is going on here?

Thanks,
Linda
--

Hello,
       I've been using Audacity 1.0.0  to edit some of my music.  I made a 
couple of compilation CDs of different tracks which I edited and burned 
copies of without problems.  However when I tried to make duplicates copies 
of these CD's, there were errors at the end or beginning of some tracks.  For 
example the previous track would end OK, but then instead of the following 
track I would get the end of the last piece repeated over and over.  Is this 
because I need to put in one or two seconds of silence at the end of the 
piece so the burner realizes the piece is over and the next track is coming?  
Please let me know.  
                                                                              
       Thank you,   Burton Greene

Unfortunately I have no idea what the problem is, I've never seen
that happen before.  Does your burned CD do this in all CD players?

What CD burning software are you using?

- Dominic


GreeneBurton@... wrote:
> Hello,
>       I've been using Audacity 1.0.0  to edit some of my music.  I made 
> a couple of compilation CDs of different tracks which I edited and 
> burned copies of without problems.  However when I tried to make 
> duplicates copies of these CD's, there were errors at the end or 
> beginning of some tracks.  For example the previous track would end OK, 
> but then instead of the following track I would get the end of the last 
> piece repeated over and over.  Is this because I need to put in one or 
> two seconds of silence at the end of the piece so the burner realizes 
> the piece is over and the next track is coming?  Please let me know.  
>                                                                                     Thank 
> you,   Burton Greene

Hi  i just purchased a sony mini disk player recorder I can download from the 
PC to the mini disk using software that came with unit

I want to be able to upload to PC from mini disk items I recorded with 
microphone

does audacity handle this??? if so how do you execute process

thanks  jack

JStei81106@... wrote:
> Hi  i just purchased a sony mini disk player recorder I can download 
> from the PC to the mini disk using software that came with unit
> 
> I want to be able to upload to PC from mini disk items I recorded with 
> microphone
> 
> does audacity handle this??? if so how do you execute process

You can't just copy the files, you have to press "play" on the
minidisc and press "record" in Audacity.

- Dominic

> thanks  jack

When ever I open a track and play it back with the desired results, the =
quality is diminished. For example, the music will seem to go from one =
side of the head phones to another rapidly. I would like the sound =
quality to remain the same while the effect is being applied. I tried =
compressing the file, but no luck. Can you fix this is later versions?

Sincerely,

Sarah 'Alawami

Bonjour,

après avoir chargé les fichiers (import midi) et au moment d'appuyer sur le bouton lecture le message suivant apparaît :

"Audacy a généré des erreurs et sera fermé par windows..." J'ai essayé de réinstaller le logiciel, sans meilleur résultat. Avez-vous une explication et une solution à me fournir. Merci d'avance.




---------------------------------
Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français !
Testez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail

in wich way can I have the polish version of your program ( audacity )?

Andrzej Onuch wrote:

> in wich way can I have the polish version of your program ( audacity )?

Run Audacity 1.2.0-pre2 and choose the Polish language option:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/beta.php

The Polish translation is not finished, so some items will be in
English.  If you would like to help, please read:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/translation/

Bonjour,
Est-il possible d'assembler bout =E0 bout plusieurs s=E9quences midi ou =
wav avec le logiciel?
Merci d'avance...

To Whom it May Concern

My name is Mark Cooley. I am a member of the new media based art =
collaboritive Artofficial Construction Media.=20
We have conceptualized a project that is predicted to be fairly simple =
in terms of programming. =A0However, unfortunately, we are not =
programmers. =A0We are looking for possible collaborators in the open =
source programming community on this net_art project. =A0Below you will =
find a brief description on our project as it is currently =
conceptualized.
=20
 untitled project (the instant avantgarde music generator)=20
=20
 This application which internet users will be able to download from the =
the ACM website will enable users to browse their hard disks for audio =
files which will automatically be reencoded from mp3 or other formats to =
a nonpropreitary file format. =A0The file will then automatically be =
altered by taking a random sample of audio from the file and removing =
that sampled audio from the entire file. =A0The sound that we are =
looking for is reproducible by opening an audio file in Audacity and =
applying the noise reduction filter to a randomly sampled piece of audio =
(a few seconds or so). =A0The resulting filtered audio abstracts the =
original to the extent that the original audio is unrecognizable. =A0In =
its' place is avant garde music. =A0The user will then be able to upload =
"successful" audio re-compositions to the ACM host server. =A0Besides =
its obvious critique of the privitazion of digital representations, this =
projects asks at least two additional questions. =A0How can pop music be =
made better, and how can avant garde music be made more accessable to =
mainstream audiences?
=20
=20
 ACM http://www.artofficial-online.com=20
=20
=20

Rod,

some users have reported problems with Norton Recycle Bin. Unfortunately
this is something we can't just easily fix, because it lays in the way
Norton Recycle Bin handles files. No damage should be done to your
system though, so normally the worst thing that can happen is that
Audacity just doesn't work. So I suggest just trying out Audacity, and
if it doesn't work as expected maybe you can just disable Norton Recycle
Bin while you're using Audacity.


Markus

Am Fre, den 12.03.2004 schrieb jimirod um 03:10:
> Do you have a bug fix report online? I use Norton protection on
> recycle and was wondering if this had a fix.
> Thanx/Rod
> 
> 
>

I didn't find an answer in the FAQ's or the help archives.  My question =
is, "Can Audacity convert an audio file with a cda file extension name =
to a wav file?"

Thanks!
Phil Schlarb

Schlarb wrote:

> I didn't find an answer in the FAQ's or the help archives.  My
> question is, "Can Audacity convert an audio file with a cda file
> extension name to a wav file?"

If the file is on an audio CD, then Audacity cannot open it directly.
You will need to use a separate program like iTunes or CDex to extract
the track to your hard drive as a WAV or AIFF file.

If the track has already been extracted to the hard drive, then you can
use Audacity's "Import Raw" command to open it and then export it as a
WAV file.

is there a way i can take the beat out of a song and just have the vocals?

Thanks for a great program.

Is it possible to play a music file in audacity and record vocals on =
another track?

My wife and I sing with back up tracks. Up until now we record through =
our sound system into a cassett tape. Then I transfer the recording to =
my computer using Audacity. I would like to do all my recording directly =
to the computer. I've tried recording our vocals seperately with the =
above mentioned technique and then mix with the music track in Audacity. =
However, it is impossible to match the tracks together because of the =
timeing of the tracks.=20

Thanks,  Gerald Williams

PS..Could someone develope a high, mid, low tone mixer with slide =
controls? Also one for reverb or at least some preset options. Thanks =
again.

Gerald W. Williams wrote:

> Thanks for a great program.
>
> Is it possible to play a music file in audacity and record vocals on
> another track?

Yes.  You will need to turn on "Play existing tracks while recording" in
the "Audio I/O" section of the preferences.  Then open the sound file in
Audacity and press Record.

After recording, the vocal track may be delayed about 1 second compared
to the music track.  You will need to use the time-shift tool to align
the new track with the original track.

Hello,
could you please tell me how it's possible to put track marks?
Thank you
Nina Herwig

On May 21, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Nina Herwig wrote:
> Hello,
> could you please tell me how it's possible to put track marks?

To annotate separations between tracks for your own purposes,
use a label track:

   http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tracks_label.html

If you want to split a single recording into multiple files
(so that you can burn them as separate tracks on a CD),
here are some ideas:

   http://audacity.sourceforge.net/faq.php#a7

- Dominic


> Thank you
> Nina Herwig
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g
> Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 
> 10g.
> Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE.
> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click
> -- 
> Audacity-help mailing list
> Audacity-help@...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-help

I have a compaq presario computer.  I am trying to record some personal songs of mine that I wrote and I dont really know what I need.  In other words I'm trying to create my own little studio at home.  Other than your program and a CD burner what do I need?  If there's nothing else I need, how do I get rid of the noise in the background?  Thanks for your help 

		
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
Friends.  Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

I am working on a research project where we will be videotaping elderly
people using a Sony camcorder that records on cds.  I want to edit the
sound by muting all the sound recorded with the original taping and add
instructions throughout the cd/dvd and not edit the video portion.  Do
you have software that will allow this?

=20

Beth Stewart

Project Program Specialist

UAMS, CON

4301 W. Markham

Slot 529

Little Rock, AR  72205

=20

office 501-296-1762

fax 501-296-1765

cell 501-772-3919

=20

Stewart, Carol B wrote:

> I am working on a research project where we will be videotaping
> elderly people using a Sony camcorder that records on cds.  I want to
> edit the sound by muting all the sound recorded with the original
> taping and add instructions throughout the cd/dvd and not edit the
> video portion.  Do you have software that will allow this?

You can Audacity to record and edit the new soundtrack, but you will
need to use video editing software (such as VirtualDub, iMovie, or
Premier) to replace the original soundtrack with the new recording.

Hi,
Is it possible to remove the vocals from any song to create a "karaoke" =
style song?
If so, how would this be done? If not, is theres software out there that =
can be complete this task?
Thanks

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:48, AED in WNY wrote:
> Is it possible to remove the vocals from any song to create a
> "karaoke" style song?

With a normal recording, it is sometimes possible to remove vocals by
eliminating the center channel.  Here are some instructions:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/faq.php#a2

This is only possible with certain stereo recordings!

You can also try to make the vocals quieter using the equalizer or the
FFT filter.  This will work differently depending on the music, and
requires some trial and error.

I don't know of any other software that can do any more than this.

Richard Ash

To whom it may concern of Audacity

My name is Yumi Ono.

Of the Audacity software,
the pull-down menu to select line-in and microphone input unit is 
always colored gray,
and will not become active, so I cannot select what I want.

The environment of my personal computer is
Macintosh OSX 10.3.4
Audacity macosx-1.2.1

===================================================
Yumi Ono
  2-22-10-503 Kaminoge,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0093
===================================================

When I rap over a beat my vocals are not recorded in real time...in other
words during playback the beat and lyrics don't match...is there any remedy
to this?

thanks

gavin

Hello there.  I found you through the Kim Commando show.  I intend to 
transfer my old records to cd if possible.  I downloaded audacity and am trying to 
figure out how to work it.  When I try to open a music track from a cd in the 
player I get a message that says   "RIFF file does not specify wave as type."  
when I click OK it says " audacity did not recognise this type of file would 
you like to try it as raw pcm audio data."  I thought i was up on this kind of 
thing but I dont want to screw things up in my system if there is an easy 
answer to this.  Please help with what I need to do to get it to work.  Thank you 
so much.  Kevin

Kle3good@... wrote:

> When I try to open a music track from a cd in the player I get a
> message that says   "RIFF file does not specify wave as type."

Audacity can't extract music directly from an audio CD.  You will first
need to use a program like CDex to import the track to your computer:

  http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

This will let you save the CD track as an MP3 or WAV file, which you can
open with Audacity.

Gavin Duerson wrote:

> When I rap over a beat my vocals are not recorded in real time...in
> other words during playback the beat and lyrics don't match...is there
> any remedy to this?

You need to use the Time Shift tool to move the two tracks into sync
after recording.  Audacity does not yet have a way to correct for this
automatically.

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Audacity-</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>when I try to download the program for Windows, my computer keeps telling me 'the setup files are corrupted. download the latest version.'</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>what gives? please email me back at this address</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>thanks for your help</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Will Underwood</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2737??PS=47575">FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now!</a> </html>

William Underwood said:
> Audacity-
> when I try to download the program for Windows, my computer keeps telling
> me 'the setup files are corrupted. download the latest version.'

Alternative download links can be foudn here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6235

Richard Ash

can I use this program to record stream/record radio from my reciever
into my laptop?

thanks
gregor

William Underwood wrote:

> when I try to download the program for Windows, my computer keeps
> telling me 'the setup files are corrupted. download the latest
> version.'

There may be a problem with your connection to our main server.  You can
download the files from a different server here:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6235

(Note: Sorry for the late response!)

Gregor Samsa wrote:

> can I use this program to record stream/record radio from my reciever
> into my laptop?

Yes.  You will need to run a cable from your receiver's headphone or
"Line Out" connector to the "Line In" input on your laptop.  Then set up
Audacity to record from that input.  Press "record" to begin recording,
and use the "Export" command to save the results when you're done.

Gretchen Anderson said:
> I may be a real dope...but how do you download the LAME mp3
> link...I go to the page but there are no directions!  Help!  I need to
> convert a file to MP3.

Dtailed instructions can be found here:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/AudacityHelp.html#LAME

If you are after the windows version of LAME then any of the lame-3.96
links on the page we link to will work, and you can then extract the
required dll.

Richard Ash

Can Audacity be used to create audio that can be exported as CD (i.e., =
compact disc) file? In other words, can I record something, put it on a =
CD, and listen to it on a stereo system that does not play MP3 files?

Thanks for your time,
Steve Majewski

Steve Majewski, FuriaRubel said:
> Can Audacity be used to create audio that can be exported as CD (i.e.,
> compact disc) file? In other words, can I record something, put it on a
> CD, and listen to it on a stereo system that does not play MP3 files?

Export to Wav files (44.1 kHz, stereo whichis the default), then use these
in your CD burning software to create an Audio CD (as opposed to data CD)

Richard Ash

Hello, I did not see this problem in the help section. When I try to reco=
rd, it seems to only record in mono(box on left side under audio track). =
Is the sound being recorded in stereo and only showing one track or am I =
doing something wrong? How do I get two tracks to show up? Thank you<BR>
--=20
<p>___________________________________________________________<br>Sign-up=
 for Ads Free at Mail.com<br>
<a href=3D"http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannerco=
de=3Dadsfreejump01" target=3D"_blank">http://www.mail.com/?sr=3Dsignup</a=
></p>

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 22:23, o k wrote:
> Hello, I did not see this problem in the help section. When I try to
> record, it seems to only record in mono(box on left side under audio
> track). Is the sound being recorded in stereo and only showing one
> track or am I doing something wrong?

If it's recording stereo, it'll show 2 tracks.

>  How do I get two tracks to show up? Thank you

Check File > Preferences and the Audio I/O tab. Make sure Channels under
Recording is set to 2.

Josh

Thanks, Richard. That worked perfect. The volume was a little low, though on
my stereo. Any suggestions during the Audacity recording process?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ash" <richard@...>
To: "Steve Majewski, FuriaRubel" <smajewski@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


> Steve Majewski, FuriaRubel said:
> > Can Audacity be used to create audio that can be exported as CD (i.e.,
> > compact disc) file? In other words, can I record something, put it on a
> > CD, and listen to it on a stereo system that does not play MP3 files?
>
> Export to Wav files (44.1 kHz, stereo whichis the default), then use these
> in your CD burning software to create an Audio CD (as opposed to data CD)
>
> Richard Ash
>
>

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 14:58, Steve Majewski, FuriaRubel wrote:
> The volume was a little low, though on
> my stereo. Any suggestions during the Audacity recording
> process?
Once you have finished editing, select all (CTRL + A) and use Effects >
Amplify with the default amplification to amplify up to the maximum
level without clipping for the whole recording.

Richard Ash

Hi,
 
Bought your product via ebay the other week. Great fun. I love mixing  tracks 
and this is now possible thanks to you guys.
 
My question is, please can you tell me step by step how to remove the  
vocals? I know this only works on certain original stereo recordings but I seem  to 
be having problems.
 
Also, is it possible to remove certain instruments etc from a recording  i.e. 
so that only the vocals are present?
 
Cheers,
Gary.

GaryWilson25@... wrote:

> Bought your product via ebay the other week. Great fun. I love mixing
> tracks and this is now possible thanks to you guys.

Thanks!  By the way, you should check our web site to make sure you have
the latest version:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

See this page for information about eBay vendors of Audacity:

  http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.pl?LuxuriousitySound

> My question is, please can you tell me step by step how to remove the
> vocals? I know this only works on certain original stereo recordings
> but I seem to be having problems.

The Audacity FAQ has detailed instructions:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/faq.php#g1

Let us know if you'd like more information about any of the steps.

> Also, is it possible to remove certain instruments etc from a
> recording  i.e.  so that only the vocals are present?

In general, it is only possible to remove the center channel of the
recording (usually the vocal track).

hi,
 
I want to place a certain beat on to another recording so is there a  
straight forward method to link both songs so they are syncrinised in beat and  
rhythm?
 
I have noticed the beat finder but what is it's purpose please?
 
sorry to ask.
 
cheers,
Gaz.

GaryWilson25@... said:

> I want to place a certain beat on to another recording so is there a
> straight forward method to link both songs so they are syncrinised in beat
> and rhythm?
>
> I have noticed the beat finder but what is it's purpose please?

The beat finder will create a label track underneath the audio, with
markers in it on the beats detected in the music (coresponds to peaks in
the audio level).

If the tempos of the two recordings you want to join are the same, then
you can use the time shift tool (2nd button along from left on the 2nd row
of the toolbar) to slide one of the tracks along until the beats in the
two tracks line up.

if the tempo (speed) of one of the tracks varies, then you will have to
use a time track (project > new time track) to adjust the speed of the
track until it plays at the right speed all the way through, then render
this by Exporting to a wav file.

You should then be able to import both tracks and add the 2nd recording
over the top.

Richard Ash

I would like to record my old 45's to CD's would audacity help remove clicks and pops and noise from them.ED H

Hi,  My boyfriend and I downloaded this program at the same time.  
When we record a song, there is a message at the bottom of the 
recorder that says we have so many hours of recording time left.  His 
says 5 hours, mine says 46 hours and 15 minutes.  I thought this 
software was free for an unlimited time.  Am I misunderstanding the 
message?  And why the difference in time left?  I have recorded more 
than he has.  I love this program and was hoping to be able to use it for 
a long time.  Thank you very much.   Eva Marruffo

Does this work with Windows XP SP2?
Thanks!


Theo Igrisan8150 Ravine DriveWestland, MI 48185Tigrisan@...

Theo Igrisan wrote:

> Does this work with Windows XP SP2?

Yes, it does.

-- 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Thanks!

Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@...> wrote:Theo Igrisan wrote:

> Does this work with Windows XP SP2?

Yes, it does.

-- 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/



Theo Igrisan8150 Ravine DriveWestland, MI 48185Tigrisan@...

je voudrais acheter le programme audacity
mais le site est toujour bloque comment faut il faire??
MERCI DE REPONDRE

Autoecoleroc@... wrote:

> je voudrais acheter le programme audacity
> mais le site est toujour bloque comment faut il faire??

Vous pouvez t=E9l=E9charger Audacity ici:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=3Dfr

ou ici:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D6235

Hello,

First of all, I would like to say "Thank You" for providing such a fabulous
application as freeware.  Audacity is an outstanding product.

I just started using it a few weeks ago to transfer old cassette voice files
to WAV.  I finished about 15 hours worth, and now the program will only
properly record about 30 minutes (out of a 1-2 hour tape), then goes into a
type of 'loop', where it shows that it's receiving the audio input, but is
recording 'over' the previous audio track repeatedly.
I've tried to remove and re-install the program, but still find the same
result.

Can you point me in the direction of a solution, or perhaps what to look
for?

Best regards,
Tim

Hi - I am a court reporting student. i am tring to figure out if =
versiion 1.2.2 supports time changes. That is, we need a tool to speed =
up or slow down something recorded. i can access the time track, but =
cannot change it. is this feature on 1.2.2 or should i look elsewhere?? =
MML

Michael Lishinsky wrote:

> Hi - I am a court reporting student. i am tring to figure out if
> versiion 1.2.2 supports time changes. That is, we need a tool to speed
> up or slow down something recorded.

The easiest way to do this is to select the clip you want to change, and
then use the "Change Tempo" effect.

> i can access the time track, but cannot change it.

To change a time track, use the "Envelope" tool.

Note: The time track is a new feature, and may have some bugs still.

hi!!
Can i record my own songs on Audacity? I mean, can i play my gitar and =
record it and then play another instrument or vocals?
or can i just edit sound files that i import to Audacity?
Thanks in advance
Ron

=F9=E8=E9=E2=EC=E9=F5 wrote:

> Can i record my own songs on Audacity? I mean, can i play my gitar and
> record it and then play another instrument or vocals?

Yes, Audacity can make live recordings from your computer's "Microphone"
or "Line In" inputs.

To record a new track on top of a previous one, make sure you turn on
"Play existing tracks while recording" in the "Audio I/O" section of the
preferences.

Hi

I'm about to start a research project where I have to interview 7 nurses 3 times each and then transcribe 21 hours of interview. Would your software allow me to transcribe the tapes without me physically having to type the interviews out? 

Thanks!

Trudi

 

 

Trudi Mannix

Coordinator, Neonatal Nursing Education

Women's and Children's Hospital

72 King William St

North Adelaide SA 5006

phone 08 81616191

fax 08 81616844

email  <mailto:mannixt@...> mannixt@...

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Bonjour, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>J'ai un problème avec mon Audacity depuis quelques temps.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Lorsque j'enregistre une première piste&nbsp;et que je désire enregistrer une seconde piste, je </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>n'entends pas ce qui devrait provenir du premier enregistrement. J'ai désinstaller Audacity pour </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>m'en réinstaller un autre mais le problème persiste toujours.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>merci de votre aide</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Guillaume</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN Messenger  <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBFR/2734??PS=47575" target="_top">: discutez en direct avec vos amis !</a> </html>

tipunx tipunx wrote:

> Lorsque j'enregistre une premiere piste et que je desire enregistrer
> une seconde piste, je n'entends pas ce qui devrait provenir du premier
> enregistrement.

Ouvrez les "preferences."  Dans la section "E/S Audio," choissez le
option "Lire les autres pistes pendant l'enregistrement d'une nouvelle."

J''utilise Audacity pour exporter de vins .
Dans les derni=E8res versions 1.22 et 1.23lors de l'exportation le =
second menu  "titre artisie album" n'appara=EEt qu'=E0 l'enregistrement =
de la premi=E8re piste, ce qui fait qu'=E0 la lecture winamp un seul =
titre n'appara=EEt pour toutes les pistes.
Quelle est la solution?
Merci d'avance.
                                                            jmi

I've read on your web site that AUDACITY made it possible to convert tapes into digital recordings. How do you do that?

Estelle

-------------------------------------------------
Internet simplement moins cher avec Tele2 : http://www.tele2.fr
-------------------------------------------------

ebringueret@... wrote:

> I've read on your web site that AUDACITY made it possible to convert
> tapes into digital recordings. How do you do that?

This page has instructions:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=records-tapes

Hi=20
Hope you can help:
1) What is the best way to record directly from the telephone and how is =
that hooked up?
2) How can a constant HUM be removed from an audio? (like maybe =
selecting a part of the recording where the hum is all by itself =
[during a period of no talking] and the editor will remove all =
like waveforms??) and can this be done with your editor?
Thanks
S

is this or are there any programs that let someone burn a disk that has =
a copyright

I would like to know if i can record from mono (reel cassette) to stereo =
or trnsfer the file to stereo

thanks

tamir
 This mail was sent from mail.pineapp.net
 
************************************************************************************
This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by
PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses.
************************************************************************************

can we make our USB microphone appear in the right side pull down menu?
It only allows the microphone to record when we go into preferences and
change the recording device to the USB microphone (AK5370 Logitech).  It
would be much handier to be able to simply change it in the pull down
box on the right hand side of the screen. it looks like that menu is
only accessing devices that are going through the sound card.
 
Thanks for your help.
 
Ann Panthen
 
 
 
Ann Panthen
METCAD 911 Operations Manager
ann.panthen@...
217-333-8028

When I use a mike in.my recordings sometimes come out slow and sometimes
normal.

 

Do you know how I can fix this?

 

Very best,

Eric

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:57 -0500, Eric G. Schneider, D.Min. wrote:
> When I use a mike in…my recordings sometimes come out slow and
> sometimes normal.
You need installed updated drivers for your sound card - this is a bug
in the drivers.

Richard Ash

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:00 -0600, Ann Panthen wrote:
> can we make our USB microphone appear in the right side pull down
> menu? It only allows the microphone to record when we go into
> preferences and change the recording device to the USB microphone
> (AK5370 Logitech).  It would be much handier to be able to simply
> change it in the pull down box on the right hand side of the screen.
> it looks like that menu is only accessing devices that are going
> through the sound card.

The list on the right hand side is of inputs to the currently active
audio device, where as the selection in the preferences is which audio
device to use. The two are separate as most people only have one audio
device.

Richard Ash

i have used audacity for a few months its awesome :)
i was wondering, though, if the next version will have a midi editing 
feature and if you will be able to import wma's and other common sound 
formats. that would be great if you could
also, when will the next version be out?
peter

_________________________________________________________________
Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has 
to offer. 
http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines 
  Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the 
first two months FREE*.

i have version 1.2.3 and im running windows 98.  im want to know if it is possible to change the speed of a song and not have to change the pitch. and if not, can u tell me how to change the pitch back exactly to its original pitch after changing the speed. thank you

		
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
 Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>
<P>Bonjour,</P>
<P>J'ai télécharger le logiciel audacity que j'aime bien, mais le menu déroulent ou je devrais pouvoir choisir la source, microphone et le reste, n'apparait pas...</P>
<P>Comment je fais pour pouvoir affficher ce menu déroulant sur mon tableau.</P>
<P>Merci...<BR><BR><BR></P>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" color=#ff6666><STRONG><EM>Monique</EM>...<IMG height=12 src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emrose.gif" width=12></STRONG></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></html>

comment faire pour avoir la nouvelle version audacity

Hello
 
I need help creating click tracks (I think that is the term--I want  
listeners to the audio to be able to search and find topics in my program--like  songs 
on a CD) in a continual mp3 file. I am creating audio programs for  
conversion to mp3 for the purpose of downloading from a web site. They are  speeches I 
have made and recorded using Audacity. When I burn a CD, I just  convert the 
separate segments to wav files, and that works fine but I have  multiple mp3 
files. For the internet download programs, I need one mp3 file with  searchable 
tracks.
 
I hope my question is clear.
 
Thanks in advance for your help!
 
Bill
 
William G.  DeFoore, Ph.D.
Institute for Personal and Professional Development
14675  Midway Road, Suite 116
Addison, TX  75001
Ph:(214)764-7930
Fx:(214)764-7931
Web:www.defoore.com
Email:bd4home@...

bonjour

j'utilise audacity version 1.2.1, sur un pc HP 450Mhz,sous windows 98,aves 
256 Mo de Ram.
je numerise des vinyle et voici l'objet de ma question: à la réecoute,après 
la numérisation,je constate (j'entend!) de légers et brefs 
décrochements,comme de petits sauts au niveau du signal musical: c'est peu 
mais désagréable à entendre.
à quoi cela peut il être dû?
est ce mon PC qui n'est pas assez rapide pour numériser en direct?
y'a t'il des règlages à optimiser dans audacity et si oui lesquels?
merci d'avance de votre réponse,car je désespère de pouvoir enfin numériser 
parfaitement mes vinyls.

salutations

Ivan

To Whom It May Concern:
 
How do I unzip the "lame-3.96.1" file in order to download LAME??????
 
Thank You,
     China

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com

You need software that does that, e.g., Winzip.

-Vaughan


china grayer wrote:

> *To Whom It May Concern:*
> ** 
> *How do I unzip the "lame-3.96.1" file in order to download LAME??????*
> ** 
> *Thank You,*
> *     China*
>

bonjour,
je voudrais savoir s'il y a moyen de transformer sa voix avec AUDACITY et ce en direct ?

how do i record both mic input and speaker output at the same time

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:49 -0400, Insanity Insanity wrote:
> how do i record both mic input and speaker output at the same time

You can't unless the mic is routed to come out of the speaker, or you
set the mic to pick up the sound from the speakers. Almost all consumer
sound cards can only record from one input at a time due to their
hardware design.

You would need to re-route the signals so that the sources you want to
record are on two channels of the same input, and record that.

Richard Ash

look man i really appreciate the help but i dont understand what you
mean =3D\ could you give me an idiots tutorial please (sorry).

is there a way to remove the music and just leave the voice track?  i am 
using the latest version of audacity with windows XP.  Basically the 
opposite of a karaoke track??

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 21:34 +0000, PENN EDWARD wrote:
> is there a way to remove the music and just leave the voice track?  i am 
> using the latest version of audacity with windows XP.  Basically the 
> opposite of a karaoke track??
No. The vocal removal relies on the sound being exactly in the middle of
the stereo and cancelling it out. You can't do anything equivalent for
the other parts.

Richard Ash

Hey there!  I really appreciate the support and the free software!
 
Umm.... I have a question.
 
Lately, the program has been running really slow ...... and when I use the envelope tool, everything freezes or gets stuck for awhile - like - I can make the first dot, but it wont let make the next dot.  This freeze seems to be pretty sporadic.
 
Could you make some suggestions as to how to quicken the process and prevent the freezes?
 
I am using a DELL Inspiron 6000, Windows XP, and I am editing sound audio of a speaker for a workshop.  Each file is about an hour long....... 
 
Cheers,
Amy Cone 

		
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
 Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

Hi, I had a similar question as to "Can I remove the vocals from a
recording to make a Karaoke track?" listed under FAQ. Like it says it
"is possible only for certain stereo tracks" which is true. Some of
the songs turned out better than others. And my question is, can you
suggest any free softwares that can remove all the vocals aka. vocal
eliminator?

Thanks

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 19:15 -0700, Eien-Kano wrote:
> Hi, I had a similar question as to "Can I remove the vocals from a
> recording to make a Karaoke track?" listed under FAQ. Like it says it
> "is possible only for certain stereo tracks" which is true. Some of
> the songs turned out better than others. And my question is, can you
> suggest any free softwares that can remove all the vocals aka. vocal
> eliminator?
No. To do fully effective signal separation is one of the holy grails of
high end audio processing, but certainly isn't achievable yet, even in
university research systems let alone any free software.

Richard Ash

je  cherche  a alleger  le  poids d'une  piste  audio  en  wav  pour  la =
 poser  sur  powerpoint  , je suis  perdue  dans  la  marche  a suivre  =
pouvez  vous  me  donner  le  mode  operation  pour realiser  cela  .   =
en attendant  votre  reponse  je vous remercie  et pour  vous  encourage =
 pour  la  suite  .  jocelyne

i have a kyocera koi and i'm using cricket service i also have a data cable but it says i can only put mid, imy, and pmd ringtones on through the cable. i have put ringtones that sound just like they are mp3 tones through the service called realtonejukebox with my brew on my phone and i dont know if they are mp3's but they sound just like real songs so it seems like my phone is capable but i guess the cable wont let me put mp3 files on it. but i want to make my own tones and i don't know how to do it with audacity. can i change or convert the file to make it work with my cable? please help, thanks 



		
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Mail
 Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour

Audacity can import and export MP3, but not MID, IMY, or PMD.

KRConer wrote:

> i have a kyocera koi and i'm using cricket service i also have a data 
> cable but it says i can only put mid, imy, and pmd ringtones on 
> through the cable. i have put ringtones that sound just like they are 
> mp3 tones through the service called realtonejukebox with my brew on 
> my phone and i dont know if they are mp3's but they sound just like 
> real songs so it seems like my phone is capable but i guess the cable 
> wont let me put mp3 files on it. but i want to make my own tones and i 
> don't know how to do it with audacity. can i change or convert the 
> file to make it work with my cable? please help, thanks
>
> <http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html>

Is it possible to buy a CD of the audacity editor & recorder programme ?

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 08:33 +1000, Don Tadman wrote:
> Is it possible to buy a CD of the audacity editor & recorder
>  programme ?

See:
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/buy

Richard Ash
>

why is there a white page for the help instructions in french svp and how  
can I have them

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
L'aide int&eacute;gr&eacute;e est en cours de traduction et devrait para&icirc;tre sous
peu. Par contre, en cliquant sur Documentation, vous devriez arriver
sur l'aide ....en anglais.<br>
<br>
Cordialement<br>
<br>
Christian Brochec<br>
Traducteur fran&ccedil;ais d'Audacity<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:LaBiograVie@...> a &eacute;crit&nbsp;:
<blockquote cite="midcd.317cc0f4.306930b2@..." type="cite">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
  <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name="GENERATOR">
  <font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
  <div>why is there a white page for the help instructions in french
svp and how can I have them</div>
  </font></blockquote>
</body>
</html>

i can only record from my external sound card that is 
plugged into my pc with a usb cable. the new audacity 1.2.3 
only gives me 3 options on the toolbar. they are mic, cd 
audio, and stereo mix. how do i record? please email me back 
soon. thank you

Michael G Schick said:
> i can only record from my external sound card that is
> plugged into my pc with a usb cable. the new audacity 1.2.3
> only gives me 3 options on the toolbar. they are mic, cd
> audio, and stereo mix. how do i record?

These are the inputs on your main (internal) sound card. You need to
select the USB device as the recording device on the Audio I/O tab of the
audacity preferences.

You probably also want to select software playthrough:
  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/reference.html#prefs

Richard Ash

bonjour ; je suis une grandMma qui essaye de trouver plein de petits =
trucs pour ses petits enfants et j'ai d=E9couvert votre logiciel du =
moins un peu ; seulement voila je n'ai qu'un tout petit disque dur et =
windows 98 est ce que je peux le t=E9l=E9charger quand m=E8me ? ou non ? =
est ce que cela ne va pas me faire buguer mon ordi sans cesse ? et est =
ce qu'on peut le retirer quand on veut ? auriez vous la gentillesse de =
m'expliquer tout bien car j'ai la comprenette difficilette =E0 c't'=E2ge =
la ! et aussi est ce que =E7a ne met pas des virus ? merci beaucoups de =
me r=E9pondre ; mes civilit=E9s ; Denise Juen ; mon email est : =
huguette.juen@...

=20

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Madame, <br>
<br>
Audacity est un logiciel libre. Cela veut dire qu'il appartient &agrave; tout
le monde, et donc que personne ne peut s'en servir pour y glisser des
trucs malveillants. Il peut-&ecirc;tre retir&eacute; sans probl&egrave;me. Comme tout
programme, il n'est pas impossible qu'il provoque un conflit dans votre
ordinateur, mais pas plus (et plut&ocirc;t moins) qu'un autre.En pratique, le
risque est quasi inexistant.<br>
Le plus gros probl&egrave;me est celui du disque dur : le son prend beaucoup
de place, environ 7 disquettes par minute pour un CD. <br>
De quel espace libre disposez-vous sur votre disque dur ? Avez-vous les
moyens d'en rajouter un ?<br>
D'autre part, il faut reconnaitre qu'un ordi sous Windows 98 est
d&eacute;sormais ancien (m&ecirc;me si celui dont je vous &eacute;crit en fait partie) Il
faudra que vos petits enfants ne le poussent pas trop loin.<br>
<br>
En r&eacute;sum&eacute; : Audacity est un excellent logiciel &eacute;ducatif de traitement
de son (si je l'ai traduit, c'est pour faciliter son usage par les
&eacute;l&egrave;ves du primaire) et, avec quelques pr&eacute;cautions, on peut s'en servir
m&ecirc;me avec un ordi assez ancien.<br>
<br>
Dans tous les cas, je reste &agrave; votre disposition en cas de probl&egrave;me.<br>
<br>
Christian Brochec<br>
Traducteur fran&ccedil;ais d'Audacity<br>
<br>
huguette.juen a &eacute;crit&nbsp;:
<blockquote cite="mid000801c5d2e5$8e4ecd80$dd77cb53@..." type="cite">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
  <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name="GENERATOR">
  <style></style>
  <label id="HbSession" sessionid="3521773593"></label>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">bonjour ; je suis une grandMma qui
essaye de trouver plein de petits trucs pour ses petits enfants et j'ai
d&eacute;couvert votre logiciel du moins un peu ; seulement voila je n'ai
qu'un tout petit disque dur et windows 98 est ce que je peux le
t&eacute;l&eacute;charger quand m&egrave;me ? ou non ? est ce que cela ne va pas me faire
buguer mon ordi sans cesse ? et est ce qu'on peut le retirer quand on
veut ? auriez vous la gentillesse de m'expliquer tout bien car j'ai la
comprenette difficilette &agrave; c't'&acirc;ge la ! et aussi est ce que &ccedil;a ne met
pas des virus ? merci beaucoups de me r&eacute;pondre ; mes civilit&eacute;s ; Denise
Juen ; mon email est : <a href="mailto:huguette.juen@...>
  </font></div>
  <div id="hotbar_promo"><br>
  <a
 href="http://promos.hotbar.com/promos/promodll.dll?RunPromo&amp;El=&amp;SG=&amp;RAND=58058&amp;partner=hbtools"><img
 moz-do-not-send="true" title="" alt="Upgrade Your Email - Click here!"
 src="http://promos.hotbar.com/promos/promodll.dll?GetPromo&amp;El=&amp;SG=&amp;RAND=58058&amp;partner=hbtools&amp;/p.gif"
 border="0"></a> </div>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

I was just wondering if the software i am contemplating on downloading will let me record Electric Guitar and Drums, etc... that i play and want to record? Please answer back soon

		
---------------------------------
 Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

I just downloaded audacity.
All I get when i press play is a loooooong "shhhhhhhhhh" sound.
What do i need to do?

Reggie

Kelly Bowns said:
> I was just wondering if the software i am contemplating on downloading
> will let me record Electric Guitar and Drums, etc... that i play and want
> to record?

Audacity will record anything you can feed into your computer's sound
card. You will need suitable microphones / adaptors for the sources you
wish to record.

Richard Ash

reggie daniels said:
> I just downloaded audacity.
> All I get when i press play is a loooooong "shhhhhhhhhh" sound.
> What do i need to do?

You have tried to open a file, got an error and then used Import Raw? You
file is not in a supported format. See:
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=wma-proprietary
  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/AudacityHelp.html#wma
  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/AudacityHelp.html#itunes

Richard Ash

Is possible to use command line Audacity for windows  ? 

Edwin



-------------------------------------------------
This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 19:44 -0500, edwin.rodriguez@...
wrote:
> Is possible to use command line Audacity for windows  ? 

No. The only interface to audacity is the GUI.

Richard Ash

sometimes i get a record on my hard drive, that instead of being say, 12 
songs (files), it is just one big file. and you can only listen to it that 
way.
i have been looking for something that would enable me to (easily) chop it 
up into 12 files.
would audacity enable me to do that?

thank you,

paul

For automatically finding silence between songs, use the 
SilenceMarker.ny plug-in, available at 
"http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/SilenceMarker.ny" (or wait 
a few days and download Audacity 1.2.4 when we release it -- that 
version will include SilenceMarker.ny, on Windows). See 
"http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/plugins" for how to install 
plug-ins.

Also, see "http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split".


Paul Nielsen wrote:

>
>
> sometimes i get a record on my hard drive, that instead of being say, 
> 12 songs (files), it is just one big file. and you can only listen to 
> it that way.
> i have been looking for something that would enable me to (easily) 
> chop it up into 12 files.
> would audacity enable me to do that?
>
> thank you,
>
> paul
>

When recording someone reading, and they make a mistake, it is possible t=
o go back to the point of the mistake and carry on recording from that po=
int, without openning a new channel? I do alot of recording for radio and=
 I need this facility.
Thanks,
Wesley

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:29 +0100, wesleyc wrote:
> When recording someone reading, and they make a mistake, it is
> possible to go back to the point of the mistake and carry on recording
> from that point, without openning a new channel? I do alot of
> recording for radio and I need this facility.

You can have multiple clips on the same track in audacity 1.3

It doesn't matter how many tracks you use in audacity 1.2.x doing this,
because they will all be mixed into the same channel when you export
anyway.

You may find it's easier to just keep recording all the way through and
then select the sections you want to cut out, and remove them from the
recording later. You can drop labels (using Project > Add Label at
Playback Position (CTRL+M)) whilst recording to help you find the right
places later.

Richard Ash

Will this send an MP3 file from my computer to my mobile phone, as a  
ringtone>?
is there such a thing?>
thank you

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 03:04 -0500, TMMojeiko@... wrote:
> Will this send an MP3 file from my computer to my mobile phone, as a
> ringtone>?

No. Audacity will let you edit audio and save as an MP3 file, but you
will need something else to transfer it to your phone.

Richard Ash

Hi there,
I am currently doing a animal behavior experiment for St. Mary's College =
of Maryland on bird songs.  Your program has been very helpful in the =
study so far.  I was wondering if there is was to open up a file =
directly into spectrogram form, not having to through the process of =
changing it.  This may not seem like big issue, but it would come in =
very handy when I'm opening thousands of files per day.
thank you
David Yuan

Hi I was wondering if you could help me with something.  After using audacity, how can i compress the mp3?  is there another program that i need to dowload?  Please get back to me it would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

Jen

Yuan, David H said:
> I am currently doing a animal behavior experiment for St. Mary's College
> of Maryland on bird songs.  Your program has been very helpful in the
> study so far.  I was wondering if there is was to open up a file directly
> into spectrogram form, not having to through the process of changing it.
> This may not seem like big issue, but it would come in very handy when I'm
> opening thousands of files per day.

No. Because audacity is an audio editor, you have to load the file into
the project format before you can carry out processing like spectral
analysis. If you need large amounts of processing, a script in
Matlab/Octave or similar may be more suitable.

Richard Ash

coolingj7j7@... said:
> Hi I was wondering if you could help me with something.  After using
> audacity, how can i compress the mp3?  is there another program that i
> need to dowload?
See these instructions on downloading LAME:
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

Richard Ash

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 10:41 -0700, Marcus Bentley wrote:
> I have a compaq presario computer.  I am trying to record some
> personal songs of mine that I wrote and I dont really know what I
> need.  In other words I'm trying to create my own little studio at
> home.  Other than your program and a CD burner what do I need?  If
> there's nothing else I need, how do I get rid of the noise in the
> background?

See this page:
 http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.pl?Identifying_Problems

Richard Ash 
>

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:43 +0200, tamir ben zvi wrote:
> I would like to know if i can record from mono (reel cassette) to
> stereo or trnsfer the file to stereo

See the FAQ:
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=records-tapes

Richard Ash
>

hello.
I have a question. I tried to use the forum but my screenreader crashed. =
And the help section doesn't answer my question. The question is: how =
can i delete the recent file list in the latest version of audacity?
I hope you can help me.

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 23:15 +0100, Sandra van Galen wrote:
> I have a question. I tried to use the forum but my screenreader
> crashed. And the help section doesn't answer my question. The question
> is: how can i delete the recent file list in the latest version of
> audacity?

I don't think there's any easy way apart from finding the audacity
settings and deleting the stored values. Why would you want to do this?

There are a set of preference values under RecentFiles called file1 to
file9 which hold the recent files list entries. If you set these strings
to empty this will clear the list.

On Windows the preferences are stored in the Registry, under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Audacity, on Linux the values are in
~/.audacity, and on OS X there is an "audacity" file in your library.

Richard Ash

>>Richard Ash "I don't think there's any easy way (to clear recent file list)  apart from finding the audacity settings and deleting the stored values. Why would you want to do this?"

Primarily to stop the list becoming too long and cluttered with files that no longer exist. I appreciate this is a new feature in Audacity that I (at least) wanted for a long time. Other apps add gui features which make the recent files feature even more useful. Ones that could be considered for future would be to set a maximum  number of files to be displayed on the list (oldest then drop out) ; and a function to delete obsolete files that no longer exist  

---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 01/01/2006 16:46:41

I am in the middle of making a podcast and I am almost done recording it 
but in the middle of it audacity runs very slowly and the vocals and music 
are jagged.  The songs are in wave format - could that be the reason why?  I 
have an HP pentium 4 system.  Can you help me with this?  Thanks.

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 16:46 +0000, mail@... wrote:
> >>Richard Ash "I don't think there's any easy way (to clear recent
> file list)  apart from finding the audacity settings and deleting the
> stored values. Why would you want to do this?"
> 
> Primarily to stop the list becoming too long and cluttered with files
> that no longer exist. I appreciate this is a new feature in Audacity
> that I (at least) wanted for a long time. Other apps add gui features
> which make the recent files feature even more useful. Ones that could
> be considered for future would be to set a maximum  number of files to
> be displayed on the list (oldest then drop out) ; and a function to
> delete obsolete files that no longer exist  

We're half way there - the length of the list is capped at 9 entries so
it remains manageable. It's amazing how few applications have ways of
pruning recent file lists, although I agree it would be useful to
eliminate dud entries from the list.

Richard Ash

comment telecharger audacity ?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
  <title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Allez sur le site et cliquez sur le lien correspondant &agrave; la version
d&eacute;sir&eacute;e :<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=fr">http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=fr</a><br>
puis quand la page de s&eacute;lection du serveur miroir s'affiche, cliquer
sur le lien "Download".<br>
<br>
Christian Brochec<br>
Traducteur fran&ccedil;ais d'Audacity<br>
<br>
patrick a &eacute;crit&nbsp;:
<blockquote cite="mid000901c61164$f82e8d40$0b01a8c0@..."
 type="cite">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
  <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name="GENERATOR">
  <style></style>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">comment telecharger audacity ?</font></div>
  <div>&nbsp;</div>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

Using  Windows  XP      successfully    downloaded   audacity,   made  a 
recording,   it show up on the  meter toolbar...........however  I can not hear 
any sound,    I checked everything  obvious,   mute,  etc,     I want this to  
work out,   please advise something...............thanks

How do you play rar- documents on your audacity?

_________________________________________________________________
Bescherm je Inbox: Phishing - hoe te herkennen, rapporteren en voorkomen    
http://www.msn.be/security/phishing/

>>>From "laura coosemans" <lauracoosemans@...>
How do you play rar- documents on your audacity?

Rar's  are compressed archives. You need to decompress and extract their
contents with a tool such as WINRAR first of all then if the contents are audio
files supported in Audacity you can open them therein. 


---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 11/01/2006 20:27:12

hi guys,
i have a wish for the next version of audacity.
i'm using audacity (the beta version on osx) for multitrack recording - 
and i miss a parameter in the preferences to eliminate the latency.
currently i cut manualy a bit of every new track - this is very 
unpleasant, sometime i forgott it.
(i mean not a automatic latency elimination, only a time offset 
parameter)
thanks
michael

Dear Friends at Audacity-

I just downloaded your program, and I really like the way it works.  I just had 
one quick question - Can I burn the files I create to a CD?  (I use the 1.2.4 
version)  Please let me know as soon as possible.  Thanks for your help.

Sincerely-
Jonathan Brockhoft
jmb4rock@...

>>>From jmb4rock@...
=2E.  I just had one quick question - Can I burn the files I create to a CD=
?  (I use the 1.2.4 version)=20

Certainly, please see

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=3Dfiles&i=3Dburn-cd

Gale Andrews=20

---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 19/01/2006 02:15:52

is it only for a private use or if i could use it for a commercial use ?

>>>>From Pascal <portfolio_plevasseur@...>
is it only for a private use or if i could use it for a commercial use ?

Yes it is free open source software for any private or commercial use, see

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=general&i=free

Gale Andrews




---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 19/01/2006 19:32:35

I some how disable the meters that are green.

How do I get the meters to show again?

They are near the output & input volume settings.

_________________________________________________________________
Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! 
http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

>>>From "Matthew Kruse" <mkruse81@...>
I some how disable the meters that are green.
How do I get the meters to show again?

Preferences > Interface > check box for "Enable Meter Toolbar"

Gale Andrews , 


---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 22/01/2006 14:07:43

This program is really something!!!  I transferred my cassette tape to my
computer with no problem.  Did a little bit of editing and saved it as a
WAV file.  My question is that I wanted to put the two files onto my mp3
player.  I went to my windows media player to transfer music and it did it
fine, but when I played the songs on the mp3 player, it wouldn't play
anything.  What did I do wrong?  Please help me

Thanks

Sarah Quartuccio
Email: sqj5036@...
Phone: 219-866-6000 ext. 8124

|>>>From "sarah quartuccio" <sqj5036@...>
| I transferred my cassette tape to my computer with no problem.  Did a little bit of
| editing and saved it as a WAV file.  My question is that I wanted to put the two 
| files onto my mp3 player.  I went to my windows media player to transfer music and  | it did it fine, but when I played the songs on the mp3 player, it wouldn't play
|  anything.  What did I do wrong?  Please help me


Sorry I am very unclear what you are trying to do after you (presumably)
exported the cassette recording from Audacity as a WAV. When you then say you
want to put two files onto your MP3 player, do you mean WAV files exported from
Audacity? What did you do in Windows Media Player - was it burn a CD , so you
can import the files off that into your MP3 player?  If you were burning a CD,
you need to burn a music CD not a data CD, see

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd

If you were not burning a CD, please let us know what you need to do to get
files off your PC into your MP3 player and we will try to help.


Gale Andrews 
---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 24/01/2006 06:05:57

Bonjour,
depuis 2 jours il m'est impossible d'exporter en MP3 depuis audacity et =
cela subitement depuis que j'ai install=E9 word 2003 ( je ne vois pas le =
rapport )
j'ai toujours bien mon fichier Lame.enc au bon endroit !
j'obtiens un fichier vide sur la version beta et un fichier illisible de =
26 octet sur 1.2.4
avez une id=E9e=20
merci
jobic

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Aucune id&eacute;e &agrave; premi&egrave;re vue, sinon que Word (ou des composants office)
ont pu installer des modules MP3.<br>
Essayez une r&eacute;installation d'Audacity et de Lame. En cas de besoin,
vous pouvez contacter &agrave; nouveau la liste d'aide (en anglais si
possible, je suis le seul aidant francophone).<br>
<br>
<br>
Cordialement
<br>
<br>
Christian Brochec
<br>
Assistance fran&ccedil;aise d'Audacity
<br>
Traducteur fran&ccedil;ais d'Audacity
<br>
<br>
<br>
penjob a &eacute;crit&nbsp;:
<blockquote cite="mid001901c620ba$f22c1920$66290654@..."
 type="cite">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
  <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR">
  <style></style>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Bonjour,</font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">depuis 2 jours il m'est impossible
d'exporter en MP3 depuis audacity et cela subitement depuis que j'ai
install&eacute; word 2003 ( je ne vois pas le rapport )</font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">j'ai toujours bien mon fichier
Lame.enc au bon endroit !</font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">j'obtiens un fichier vide sur la
version beta et un fichier illisible de 26 octet&nbsp;sur 1.2.4</font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">avez une id&eacute;e </font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">merci</font></div>
  <div><font face="Arial" size="2">jobic</font></div>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

hello there.  I have a question:  when I record, the program records onto a new track.  How do I get the the program to record onto the same track as the one I have previously recorded to ??  thanks a lot !

|   From "Kevin L." <thoughtpattern@...>
|  I have a question:  when I record, the program records onto a new track.  How do I get the program 
|  to record onto the same track as the one I have previously recorded to ??  thanks a lot !


please use the blue pause button to stop and restart your recording  - not the stop
then the record button 

Gale Andrews



---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 24/01/2006 19:21:54

bonjour,

Je vous f=E9licite pour ce fabuleux logiciel, je suis nouvel utilisateur =
,
 j'ai deux questions =E0 vous poser:=20

1)j'ouvre un fichier, je travaille dessus et ensuite,
 je le ferme en supprimant les pistes, je ne sais pas si c'est la bonne =
m=E9thode,=20
(le fichier Audacity reste ouvert sur le bas de page), sinon, je n'ai =
rien trouv=E9 d'autre qu'=E0
fermer le logiciel et =E0 le rouvrir, (est ce vraiment la bonne =
m=E9thode?).

2) J'essaye appliquer une r=E9verbe =E0 la piste chant que j'enregistre,
dans les plug in du logiciel, j'ai essay=E9 sans succes d'installer la =
r=E9verb logiciel=20
"Dasample Glace verb", pouvez vous m'indiquer la marche =E0 suivre S'il =
vous plait?

merci de votre r=E9ponse
amiti=E9s musicales
gerard jacquet

What is the meaning of the decreasing time shown on my screen when using  the 
Audacity software?  I downloaded the 1.2.4b software in November  2005.  At 
first the time shown was about 191 hours.  It has decreased  to about 171 
hours.  I use Windows XP.  Does it mean that I am  allotted 171 remaining hours of 
use?  What happens at the end of that  time?  I use the software to convert 
analog audio tapes to digital so  that I may record them onto CDs.    
_Ecorb99050@..._ (mailto:Ecorb99050@...) .

|>>> From ECorb99050@... 
    | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:52:10 EST
    | What is the meaning of the decreasing time shown on my screen
    | when using the Audacity software?  I downloaded the 1.2.4b software
    | in November 2005.  At first the time shown was about 191 hours.  
    | It has decreased to about 171 hours.  I use Windows XP.
    

Please see

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=general&i=time-remaining

Gale Andrews

---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 13/03/2006 15:29:27

Hi 
 
I recently recorded a presentation, and then my computer froze up and  I had 
to shut it down, and thought I lost the program--90 minutes. When I opened  
Audacity later, it said there were temporary files that had not been saved, and  
that I could delete them, or retrieve them manually. How do I retrieve 
temporary  files manually?
 
Thanks in advance for your help!  

Bill

William G. DeFoore, Ph.D.
Institute  for Personal and Professional Development
14675 Midway Road, Suite  116
Addison, Texas 75001
Ph: 214-764-7930
Fx: 214-764-7931
Web: _www.defoore.com_ (http://www.defoore.com/) 
Email:  bd4home@...

| From Bd4home@... 
    | Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:46:52 EDT
    | I recently recorded a presentation, and then my computer froze up and
    | I had to shut it down, and thought I lost the program--90 minutes. When I
    | opened Audacity later, it said there were temporary files that had not been
    | saved, and that I could delete them, or retrieve them manually. How do I
    | retrieve temporary files manually?


Please see here for instructions on recovering .au files in Audacity's 
temporary folder  

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery

Also please note there is a 2 GB maximum size for any WAV file created
from reconstructing the temporary files and there may be errors if this
size is exceeded. In that case you would need to split the .au files in the 
temporary folder into two or more groups, each containing consecutively
numbered files, and recover each group separately.  

I have also pasted in some tips which may help in avoiding recording 
crashes and problems. Enabling DMA on the drive and turning off 
unnecessary programs while making a long recording are amongst the 
most important.

Gale Andrews
   
*************************************************************

Here are some general tips on avoiding recording problems.  

    * Close all other programs while recording. Be aware of background virus
scanners and other system tray programs. Norton, Sophos and other anti-virus 
products scan each file as it is opened and closed by default. On a slow computer 
this scanning can affect recording as it takes too long.

    * Reduce the recording bit depth to 16 bit from 32 bit (the default). This is 
set under File > Preferences on the Quality tab. Reducing the bit depth halves 
the amount of data stored and the time taken to write it to the disk.

    *  Don't record stereo unless you have to. Stereo requires your machine to
handle twice as much data. A single instrument or solo vocal track should usually 
be recorded mono. You can position it in the stereo mix later.

    * Turn off "Auto-scroll while playing". This stops the display re-drawing as the
recording is made. Stopping this reduces the amount of processing the display uses,
freeing power for recording. This is set under File > Preferences on the Interface
tab.

    * Zoom out to the whole length you will be recording

    * Disable the recording level meter in Audacity Preferences > Interface as this 
will conserve  resources on  a slower computer 

    * Defragment your hard drive (only affects Windows users). This increases the
speed your computer can read and write information at by ensuring that files are
kept close together in a logical manner.
    
    *Windows 2000/XP users can try increasing the priority of Audacity in
Task Manager. On GNU/Linux you can run as root (back up everything 
first and not recommended unless you are on a standalone machine)         

    * Make sure (Windows/Linux) that DMA mode is enabled for your
       hard drive  -  see
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/AudacityHelp.html#DMA

   *Try to avoid interrupt sharing for your soundcard  

   * Update your hardware drivers to avoid conflicts and get better hardware
performance. Key targets are:

          o Sound Card. This is also a common cause of crashes, especially during
          recording
          o Video (Display) Card
          o Hard Drive controller - This is especially important for RAID and other
          high performance controllers.

   * If you have audio equipment such as microphones or amplifier close to the 
computer, consider moving them apart, altering the grounding so that the 
PC is not grounded together with the audio equipment, and using high quality
shielded audio cable, to prevent extraneous noises from the equipment or 
the computer seeping into the recording.

I was looking at your web page and I have a question.

Right now I am using an audio editor on a unix platform.
The files are in mmf format.

My company wants me to use a different editor.

Does Audicity edit mmf files ?

Can it run on a PC and/or unix platform ?

Thanks

| From "Reinitz, Howard S [SB]" <howard.s.reinitz@...> 
    | Wed, 10 May 2006 08:57:23 -0400
    | Right now I am using an audio editor on a unix platform.
    | The files are in mmf format.
    | My company wants me to use a different editor.
    | Does Audicity edit mmf files ?
    | Can it run on a PC and/or unix platform ?

Audacity is cross platform and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix
systems.  There are prebuilt packages available for the more common   
Linux distributions but Audacity can be compiled on any Unix platform
from source.

However Audacity does not import or export .MMF files.  If you wanted 
to edit .MMF files in Audacity you would have to first of all convert them
to a supported format (WAV, AIFF, OGG, MP3) with an external tool, or 
play them on your computer and record them into Audacity as they play.

Gale Andrews

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>I just bought the software and i did some editing on some of my files...but how can i record to cd?? when the type of file it got saved under are by pieces from each song...</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>what exactly is the steps to edit and save so i can be able to burn it in a cd????&nbsp; My files are all mp3 audio files....once i open it at audacity and edit&nbsp; do i just press the rec button and my new version is saved? where do i saved it talks about some library....please helppppp </DIV></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2749??PS=47575" target="_top">Get MSN Messenger with FREE Video Conversation - the next best thing to being there!  </a> </html>

Hi,

I need to make some editing changes to some simple sine waves (i.e. 70db sounds between 200 and 1000 htz).  I have very short sound wave files right now...I need to edit so they are 30 seconds in length...I also need to make the files modulate between the frequencies and I need the sound to fade out.  Can I do any of this with Audacity?

Thanks for your help!

Jackie

| From "Adriana Gallardo" <svs_6@...> 
    | Fri, 12 May 2006 09:45:46 -0700
    | I just bought the software and i did some editing on some of my files
    | ...but how can i record to cd??

Unless you mean you bought it on TheOpenCD, we don't sell Audacity , it's
completely free open source software available from 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

If you have TheOpenCD, please go to the page above and upgrade to version 
1.2.4.

We cannot help with other versions of Audacity that you bought from 
somewhere else because we don't know in what ways your version is different
from ours.

If your version operated as ours does, you cannot burn to CD with Audacity.
You export to WAV or AIFF and burn the CD from that exported file 


    | when the type of file it got saved under are by pieces from each song...
    | what exactly is the steps to edit and save so i can be able to burn it in 
    | a cd????  My files are all mp3 audio files....once i open it at audacity
    | and edit  do i just press the rec button and my new version is saved?
    | where do i saved it talks about some library

If you are importing MP3 files to edit and your program is like ours you 
don't use the record button but import them with Project > Import Audio.
If you want to make audio CDs, you edit your MP3 in Audacity after 
importing it and then click File > Export as WAV or AIFF and burn the CD 
from  that WAV or AIFF. You do not export as  MP3 unless you just want 
to listen to the MP3 on the computer; if you do want to export as MP3 
you might have to add Lame encoder. You need to contact your vendor 
for support and ask them for a refund if they won't help you. 

We can only help you if you use our official program downloaded from 
our site. 

Gale Andrews   
---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 13/05/2006 15:26:14

| From Jackie Massa <addicted2crackers@...> 
    | Fri, 12 May 2006 15:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
    | I need to make some editing changes to some simple sine waves 
    | (i.e. 70db sounds between 200 and 1000 htz).  I have very short
    | sound wave files right now...I need to edit so they are 30 seconds in
    |  length...I also need to make the files modulate between the 
    | frequencies and I need the sound to fade out.  Can I do any of this 
    | with Audacity?

You could import all these WAVs (Project > Import Audio and shift-select 
the files you want to import).

I am presuming these WAVs are shorter than 30 seconds now so you will 
have to select the whole of each track in turn and Edit > Copy , place the 
cursor to right of the end of the track and Edit > Paste as necessary until
you exceed 30 seconds, then delete the excess. 

When you have all the tracks at 30 seconds, then it depends what effect
you want. You can select each track in turn as before and use the envelope 
tool 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/envelope.htm

to adjust the volume envelope of each track over time between silence and
maximum so that when mixed together the effect is of one tone becoming 
more or less prominent or disappearing/reappearing as the track plays.

If you just want to make in effect a sequence of tones, it's probably easier 
to order them top to bottom in the order you want to hear them by dragging 
their track panels up and down, then select the first, say, 1/2 second of the 
first track, Edit > trim, go to track 2 , select the next 1/2 second along and
Edit > Trim and so on.

Additionally you can find Nyquist plugins here 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/nyquistplugins

that can generate modulated tones or can modulate the pitch of tones 
you already have. You will have to experiment with any that might 
suit your purpose. 

To install new plug-ins, place them in the Plug-Ins folder inside the Audacity 
installation folder. On Windows computers, this is usually under "Program Files." 
On Mac OS X, it is usually under "Applications." The plugin will be available 
after restarting Audacity. 

Gale Andrews

---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 14/05/2006 18:31:16

| From Jackie Massa <addicted2crackers@...> 
    | Fri, 12 May 2006 15:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
    | I need to make some editing changes to some simple sine waves 
    | (i.e. 70db sounds between 200 and 1000 htz).  I have very short
    | sound wave files right now...I need to edit so they are 30 seconds in
    |  length...I also need to make the files modulate between the 
    | frequencies and I need the sound to fade out.  Can I do any of this 
    | with Audacity?

In answer to making the whole finished track fade in or out, if you don't 
do it by making relevant adjustments to each track with the envelope tool:

When you have the tracks arranged so they play as a 30 second sequence 
with the effect you desire, use Project > Quick Mix to mix them to one track,
then you can select the start of the mixed  track and click Effect > Fade in,
and select the end and click  Effect > Fade out. Or for more advanced fades
you can use the Envelope Tool.


Gale Andrews

---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 14/05/2006 18:45:09

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Do I violate laws if I record american radio stations programs? </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>How could I transfer music from my casset players to the computer to make a cd? Thanks</DIV></div></html>

| From "arlete silva" <letebri@...> 
    | Mon, 22 May 2006 10:26:19 -1000
    | Do I violate laws if I record american radio stations programs? 

Generally you are entitled to do so under most interpretaions of "fair use" 
as long as you don't give or sell a copy of that recording (edited or otherwise)
to any one else. If you record internet broadcasts direct to your hard drive 
(which you can also do with Audacity) - see 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=streaming

that does not remove your obligation to comply with any stated terms of use on
the provider's web site.

    | How could I transfer music from my casset players to the computer
    | to make a cd?

The process of copying cassette tapes to CD involves connecting the 
cassette player to the line-in port of the computer and recording the 
tape into Audacity - see

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=records-tapes

then exporting the recording as an audio file and burning that file to an
"audio CD" (assuming you want to play that CD on a standalone CD player
as well as on a computer) - see 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd

Now, if the track you want to burn to CD contains multiple sections which
you'd like to burn as individual CD tracks, you can place markers
where you want to divide the track and then use the "export multiple" 
command to export multiple files with different file names - see 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split

Finally, when recording the cassette into Audacity it is always a good 
idea to test the recording level first of all with a  loud part of the cassette.
Right click on the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red)
recording level meters 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm

and click "monitor input". This shows you the recording level you will
achieve when recording. As the cassette plays, adjust the recording level
slider on the mixer toolbar

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

(by the microphone symbol) so the recording meters are almost reaching 
the far right hand side (but not far enough to bring the red hold lights on).
If the recording level meters are not visible, click Preferences > Interface > 
Enable Meter Toolbar. 

Gale Andrews

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>
<P>Gale thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciated. </P>
<P>Arlete.<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif">
<HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1>

<DIV></DIV>From:&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>gale@... silva" &lt;letebri@...: [Audacity-help] question</I><BR>Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>Tue, 23 May 2006 19:28:40 +0100</I><BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | From "arlete silva" &lt;letebri@...; | Mon, 22 May 2006 10:26:19 -1000<BR>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | Do I violate laws if I record american radio stations programs?<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;Generally you are entitled to do so under most interpretaions of "fair use"<BR>&gt;as long as you don't give or sell a copy of that recording (edited or otherwise)<BR>&gt;to any one else. If you record internet broadcasts direct to your hard 
drive<BR>&gt;(which you can also do with Audacity) - see<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&amp;i=streaming<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;that does not remove your obligation to comply with any stated terms of use on<BR>&gt;the provider's web site.<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | How could I transfer music from my casset players to the computer<BR>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | to make a cd?<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;The process of copying cassette tapes to CD involves connecting the<BR>&gt;cassette player to the line-in port of the computer and recording the<BR>&gt;tape into Audacity - see<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&amp;i=records-tapes<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;then exporting the recording as an audio file and burning that file to an<BR>&gt;"audio CD" (assuming you want to play that CD on a standalone CD player<BR>&gt;as well as on a 
computer) - see<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&amp;i=burn-cd<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;Now, if the track you want to burn to CD contains multiple sections which<BR>&gt;you'd like to burn as individual CD tracks, you can place markers<BR>&gt;where you want to divide the track and then use the "export multiple"<BR>&gt;command to export multiple files with different file names - see<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&amp;i=split<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;Finally, when recording the cassette into Audacity it is always a good<BR>&gt;idea to test the recording level first of all with a&nbsp;&nbsp;loud part of the cassette.<BR>&gt;Right click on the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red)<BR>&gt;recording level meters<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;and click "monitor input". This 
shows you the recording level you will<BR>&gt;achieve when recording. As the cassette plays, adjust the recording level<BR>&gt;slider on the mixer toolbar<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;(by the microphone symbol) so the recording meters are almost reaching<BR>&gt;the far right hand side (but not far enough to bring the red hold lights on).<BR>&gt;If the recording level meters are not visible, click Preferences &gt; Interface &gt;<BR>&gt;Enable Meter Toolbar.<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;Gale Andrews<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 10:26 -1000, arlete silva wrote:
> Do I violate laws if I record american radio stations programs? 
I've no idea - I don't live in America. It depends what you do with the
results - even if the act of recording is not prohibited, subsequent use
may be.

> How could I transfer music from my casset players to the computer to
> make a cd?
See the FAQ:
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=records-tapes
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd

Richard Ash
>

Hi- I love your program, thank you very much. I recorded a bunch of 
music that we made the other day and only data folders were saved. We 
can't find the icons for the complete recording. My only guess is that 
these were really long recordings (some 400-500 data clips) and could 
not make the icon?
thanks for your help,
Michael Mason

| From Michael J Mason <michael.mason@...> 
    | Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:42:26 -0400
    | Hi- I love your program, thank you very much. I recorded a bunch of 
    | music that we made the other day and only data folders were saved. We 
    | can't find the icons for the complete recording. My only guess is that 
    | these were really long recordings (some 400-500 data clips) and could 
    | not make the icon?

Irrespective of the length of the recording Audacity should save an .aup 
Project file in the same directory as the _data folder is saved to. If you saved
the project more than once with the File > Save command, a backup Project
file .aup.bak should also have been saved. Use your computer's Search 
facility and enter *.aup in the search box which should show all your Project
Files.  If you have deleted the Project file please see here for instructions on
piecing together the .au files in your _data folder. 

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery

Please note the .au files need to be numbered consecutively when
input to the Crash Recovery Utility or errors will occur in the program. 
If this problem occurs you can open the_data folder in your system 
File Manager and try resorting them by time modified and then 
batch renaming the .au files using a numeric sequence whilst they are 
sorted by modified time. If your file manager does not have a suitable 
tool, you should be able to obtain suitable free tools on the internet.

Also note there is a 2 GB maximum size for any WAV file created from
reconstructing the temporary files and there may be errors if this size 
is exceeded. If you recorded in Audacity's default 32 bit float format you
may be close to that limit. In that case you would need to split the .au 
files in the _data folder into two or more groups, each containing 
consecutively numbered files, and recover each group separately.  


Gale Andrews
   

 
---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 06/06/2006 16:33:23

Hello,

I've downloaded 'Audacity.' Is there HELP in Dutch?

Wim Moerman

| From "Wim Moerman" <wim.moerman@...> 
    | Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:46:29 +0200
    | Hello,
    | I've downloaded 'Audacity.' Is there HELP in Dutch?

I am afraid we don't currently have any volunteers helping us with a
Dutch translation of any documentation.

Gale Andrews
---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 13/06/2006 18:20:27

I'm using this for the first time.  How can I scroll forward towards the
end of the file?
Thanks, Sue

| From "Myers, Susan" <SMyers@...> 
    | Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:46:29 -0400
    | I'm using this for the first time.  How can I scroll forward towards 
    | the end of the file?

Please read the documentation provided in the program under Help >
Contents to familiarise yourself with the controls.

You can move directly to the end of the track by pressing the END key on 
your keyboard, or the large purple >>| button. You can scroll through 
the track horizontally to intermediate points by dragging the scrollbar       
at the bottom of the screen. You can also click the most right hand 
of the four zoom buttons to fit the project in the screen, so you do not 
need to scroll.

Gale Andrews
---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 19/06/2006 17:05:09

bonjour j'ai lu un peu vos textes et j'ai des questions : quel est la =
diff=E9rence entre le logiel STABLE  et b=E9ta
                                                                         =
   : c'est =E9crit en anglais ou en francais

M=EAme si un logiciel stable n'est pas =E0 l'abri d'=E9ventuels bogues, i=
l a=20
=E9t=E9 valid=E9 pour l'usage vis=E9. La version b=EAta est un test final=
 destin=E9=20
aux utilisateurs avanc=E9s. Elle est fonctionnelle et a d=E9j=E0 b=E9n=E9=
fici=E9 de=20
la correction de toutes les erreurs que les d=E9veloppeurs ont pu trouver=
.=20
Emlle est diffus=E9e pour d=E9couvrir d'=E9ventuels probl=E8mes que les=20
d=E9veloppeurs n'ont pas les moyens de chercher eux -m=EAmes=20
(incompatibilit=E9 entre certains mat=E9riels pr=E9cis parmi tous ceux=20
existants, usages non pr=E9vus, etc)...
Concernant Audacity, vous ne devriez normalement pas rencontrer de=20
probl=E8me =E0 utiliser la 1.3.0, mais il vaut mieux vous assurer d'un=20
maximum de sauvegardes.


Cordialement

Christian Brochec, traducteur
Assistance francophone d'Audacity
Audacity's french help

christian@...


Bolubasz Jean a =E9crit :
> bonjour j'ai lu un peu vos textes et j'ai des questions : quel est la=20
> diff=E9rence entre le logiel STABLE  et b=E9ta
>                                                                        =
   =20
>  : c'est =E9crit en anglais ou en francais
>                                                                        =
=20
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-
>
> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, securit=
y?
> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job =
easier
> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geron=
imo
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat=
=3D121642

Is there any way to remove the bass from an entire song?....
 		
---------------------------------
Want to be your own boss? Learn how on  Yahoo! Small Business.

| From Ryan Martin <saintjimmy924@...> 
    | Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:31:10 -0700 (PDT)
    | Is there any way to remove the bass from an entire song?....  

You can select all the track (by clicking in its track panel) and click
Effect > FFT Filter and drag the line down below the horizontal for the 
low frequencies to the left of the horizontal scale. If you want a sharper
attenuation of bass you can select all the track and use the high pass 
filter (if installed, below the divider on the Effect Menu) to block 
frequencies below the value you enter in the text box. 

Gale Andrews
---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 04/07/2006 15:32:00

| From "WES" <wfrazier@...> 
    | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:56:26 -0500
    | I cannot figure out how to take a recording off my computer
    | and play it on another computer after making it. I have taken the
    | program and loaded it on another computer, it all looks fine. But if 
    | I take the two icons created and move both to another computer 
    | it will not play. I see the bar moving but there is no sound. 
    | Example, I make a recording with a microphone and or import from 
    |  another sorce. It plays fine in the program. I want to take the track 
    | and play it on another computer in the office, It has no audio.

Where you have made a recording, there should not be a problem if you 
transfer the .aup Project File and the corresponding _data Folder into the
same directory on another computer, without renaming the _data Folder,
and open the .aup file in Audacity. Note any capitalisations in the
file and folder names as they originally were must be preserved. 

There will be a problem if you import an uncompressed audio file like
WAV or AIFF into your Project,  using Audacity's default behaviour of 
reading this data directly from the disc, as the Project then depends on 
that original source file. You would have to transfer that source audio 
file to the office computer, and put it in the same absolute location
(e.g. C:\ Music\music.wav), as it was on the original computer. 
The file(s) that you originally used to read data into the project are 
marked as "aliasfile" in the .aup project file. You can open the.aup file 
in a text editor to see the original location of these files, and if you can
transfer them to the office computer so they have the same path noted
in the .aup file, the project will have sound again.

Audacity by default imports uncompressed data by reading it directly, 
in order to speed up the import and to avoid rapidly consuming the
user's disc space which would occur if a copy was made. This practice
is normal with media editors, however it does require that the original 
audio file still be present. Saving the project therefore does not 
save uncompressed imported audio data where that data has been read 
direct from the disc ; it only saves a reference to it. 

To avoid this problem in future when importing uncompressed data such as 
WAV or AIFF, either retain the original audio file or set Audacity to make a 
copy of the file, which will then be stored in the Project's _data folder. You do 
this in Preferences > File Formats > "when importing uncompressed audio...."
> check the radio button "make a copy of the file before editing".
Note this issue does not arise if importing compressed data such as an MP3
file, as Audacity automatically makes a copy upon import.

If you need to write back please tell us your operating system and what 
version of Audacity you are using (Help > About).


Gale Andrews
 


---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 13/07/2006 20:31:25

I thank you for your response, I use Windows XP Pro. I am useing two 
different imputs for the audio. Most important is from a recorder made in 
Russa, it is called EDIC-MINI by Telesystems. I will make a test recording 
and try the MAKE COPY deal and see how that works. Thanks and I will let you 
know.

wes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gale@...>
To: "WES" <wfrazier@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From "WES" <wfrazier@...>
>    | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:56:26 -0500
>    | I cannot figure out how to take a recording off my computer
>    | and play it on another computer after making it. I have taken the
>    | program and loaded it on another computer, it all looks fine. But if
>    | I take the two icons created and move both to another computer
>    | it will not play. I see the bar moving but there is no sound.
>    | Example, I make a recording with a microphone and or import from
>    |  another sorce. It plays fine in the program. I want to take the 
> track
>    | and play it on another computer in the office, It has no audio.
>
> Where you have made a recording, there should not be a problem if you
> transfer the .aup Project File and the corresponding _data Folder into the
> same directory on another computer, without renaming the _data Folder,
> and open the .aup file in Audacity. Note any capitalisations in the
> file and folder names as they originally were must be preserved.
>
> There will be a problem if you import an uncompressed audio file like
> WAV or AIFF into your Project,  using Audacity's default behaviour of
> reading this data directly from the disc, as the Project then depends on
> that original source file. You would have to transfer that source audio
> file to the office computer, and put it in the same absolute location
> (e.g. C:\ Music\music.wav), as it was on the original computer.
> The file(s) that you originally used to read data into the project are
> marked as "aliasfile" in the .aup project file. You can open the.aup file
> in a text editor to see the original location of these files, and if you 
> can
> transfer them to the office computer so they have the same path noted
> in the .aup file, the project will have sound again.
>
> Audacity by default imports uncompressed data by reading it directly,
> in order to speed up the import and to avoid rapidly consuming the
> user's disc space which would occur if a copy was made. This practice
> is normal with media editors, however it does require that the original
> audio file still be present. Saving the project therefore does not
> save uncompressed imported audio data where that data has been read
> direct from the disc ; it only saves a reference to it.
>
> To avoid this problem in future when importing uncompressed data such as
> WAV or AIFF, either retain the original audio file or set Audacity to make 
> a
> copy of the file, which will then be stored in the Project's _data folder. 
> You do
> this in Preferences > File Formats > "when importing uncompressed 
> audio...."
>> check the radio button "make a copy of the file before editing".
> Note this issue does not arise if importing compressed data such as an MP3
> file, as Audacity automatically makes a copy upon import.
>
> If you need to write back please tell us your operating system and what
> version of Audacity you are using (Help > About).
>
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
> ---
> Outbound message virus-free.
> Tested on: 13/07/2006 20:31:25
>
>
>
>

i downloaded audacity a few days ago and it work however now when i import a song it imports it but u cant hear the song. also the visual display does not conatin waves, it looks like a blue rectangle block. how can i import a song that when i import it the song plays and you can hear it?

| From mtrmyrkgrjlr@... 
    | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:06:30 +0000
    | i downloaded audacity a few days ago and it work however 
    | now when i import a song it imports it but u cant hear the song.

Do you mean that there is silence when you play the imported track
in Audacity? If so, check your speakers are connected, the system 
sound is not muted, and you have you onboard sound or chosen 
sound device properly selected on the Audio I/O tab of Preferences.
Also check (on the track panel where the mute/solo buttons are) that 
you do not have the  -......+ gain slider over to the left ; and that the 
left hand of the two volume sliders on the mixer toolbar
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

is turned up. 
  
    | also the visual display does not conatin waves, it looks like a blue
    | rectangle block.

If you mean that you cannot hear any music, but only loud distortion, then 
from the waveform you describe, the sound is either some kind of tone 
or heavily amplified above the distortion level of +0 dB. If this is a 
track that you have previously exported yourself from Audacity, then 
you must either have had the gain slider way over to the right (causing
it to amplify too much) or it was a multi-track project and the combined 
volume of all the tracks when mixed together caused distortion. In this 
case you needed to move the gain sliders on each track panel to left 
so that the overall volume did not distort (in other words so that the 
green playback meters did not show a red warning light on their right 
hand side when you played the combined tracks).

If this is a distorted song then you can click in the track panel to select
it all and click Effect > Amplify and move the slider to left and click OK. 
It may sound better but won't restore the audio lost when it was made 
as a distorted track.  

If you mean this song is only a few fractions of a second long (i.e. the
song is not the length you expected it to be) then the reason is that
it is probably not of a type that Audacity accepts. It could be a file you
purchased (such as the encrypted iTunes stores .M4P format which is 
designed so it cannot be opened except in specific players), or it could
be a proprietary format specific to the operating system like .WMA.   

Audacity only imports files of type .WAV, .AIFF, .OGG and .MP3 
(plus unencrypted .MPEG4 audio such as .MOV and .M4A if you are on 
OS X and have our Beta program 1.3.0). You can check the format this 
file is in by looking in your file manager for the three digits after the 
filename and the dot. 

If this is the reason for the problem, please write back and tell us your
operating system and if possible the format of the file as described 
above (e.g. MP3 or MP4) , and we'll tell you what you can do about 
working round the difficulty.


Gale Andrews

---
Outbound message virus-free.
Tested on: 17/07/2006 19:58:42

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Hi,</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>I've just downloaded your program but there's something i don't know how to do.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>From some friends i heard it's possible to remove the vocals from a song. It should be also possible to split a track into two different parts, so you can choose to&nbsp;only hear&nbsp;the instruments (beat)&nbsp;or only hear the vocals.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>I hope you guys can help me.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV></div></html>

| From "zinzi vermeulen" <zinzivermeulen@...
    | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:17:29 +0000
    | I've just downloaded your program but there's something i=20
    | don't know how to do.  From some friends i heard it's
    | possible to remove the vocals from a song. It should be also
    | possible to split a track into two different parts, so you can
    | choose to only hear the instruments (beat) or only hear the=20
    | vocals.

Sorry but generally speaking "vocal removal" is impossible unless you
have access to the original separate vocal and instrumental tracks that=20
went into the mix. There are just two cases where you may be=20
able to remove vocals from stereo tracks.

1 ) If the vocal is mixed hard into one channel and the instrumental hard=
=20
into the other channel of a stereo track. In that case you can split the=20
stereo track by clicking on the track dropdown menu (by the mute/solo=20
buttons) > Split stereo track and delete the vocal track by clicking [X]
on the track panel. =20

2) If the vocals are panned in the centre of a stereo track, the "vocal
removal" technique can sometimes be effective. This removes what is=20
common to both tracks (i.e. the vocals), leaving behind what is different
(i.e. the instrumentals).  To try this technique, you split the stereo trac=
k=20
into its two channels as above, make both mono,  invert one of them, and=20
play back the result - see here for full instructions
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=3Dediting&i=3Dremove-vocals

If you want to save the resultant track with "vocals removed" in your=20
Project, select both tracks by shift-clicking in their track panels or sele=
cting=20
one and dragging the selection across the other, and click Project > Quick =
Mix.=20
Note if you still want to retain the original tracks that included the voca=
ls,=20
select them before doing Quick Mix and click Edit > Duplicate. =20

Note also that everything panned centre is removed by this process
(not just vocals), which in pop music can mean removing the bass.=20
Also removal of the vocals is normally incomplete and leaves artefacts
behind. Sometimes certain strands of the instrumentals are exposed
which are completely covered in the uninverted mix. =20

This gives you in theory the track without the vocals but not a track=20
which only has the vocals (which you also asked about). Work on=20
algorithms which can isolate what is common to both tracks (rather=20
than remove it) has been slow and fairly unsuccessful, but if you are=20
very interested in this area there is one recent commercial VST plugin=20
I know of called "Voicetrap" which according to the demo MP3 they=20
provide can sometimes make a decent job of isolating the vocals.=20
It also provides stereo output for "vocal removal" which the normal=20
inversion technique above does not:
http://www.cloneensemble.com/vt_main.htm

If you wanted to try this in Audacity you have to download and unzip=20
a VST enabler for your system as below=20

Windows
http://audacityteam.org/vst/VST-Enabler-0.1.3.zip

OS X
http://audacityteam.org/vst/VST-Enabler-0.1.0.dmg

Disable any download managers you have and left click on the link you requi=
re=20
(do not right-click). If you need a Windows unzipper you can use the evalua=
tion=20
version of Winzip:
http://www.winzip.com/downwzeval.htm=20

Place the unzipped VST Enabler, along with the VST plug-ins, into the
=93Plug-ins=94 folder in the Audacity installation folder. (On Mac OS X, th=
is is
usually in the Applications folder. On Windows, it is usually under Program
Files.) The next time you start Audacity, the VST effect will appear at=20
the bottom of the =93Effect=94 menu.=20

The VST Enabler is not able to display custom interfaces for plug-ins due t=
o
licensing restrictions. Instead, it uses generic controls for all VST plug-=
ins.=20
Because of this, VST plug-ins will only have a simple tabular interface in=
=20
Audacity and some may not work at all. As regards the Voicetrap plugin,=20
there is a free demo but it has only one fixed and moderate vocal removal
setting and does not demonstrate isolation at all in the free version.=20
The demo does work in Audacity, but the developer was not keen to test=20
the registered version in Audacity when we asked him, so if you do buy=20
it we'd be interested in feedback on how it works.

Gale Andrews






Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 7/31/2006 6:39:30 AM

Hi,

We use audacity to trim the tail and head of MP3's recorded here at Harvard
Law School.  

We play the file and then press the space key when we hear the beginning (or
end) of the class.  We would like to then cut to this point or from this
point to delete the unwanted audio, but when you press the space key the
cursor returns back to where you were originally playing from.

Is there any setting that could be altered or is there a key command to get
the cursor to stop where it is in the audio file when you press the space
key and not return?

Any information or advice would be extremely helpful for us.

Thanks,

Darby DeChristopher

 





Darby DeChristopher
Manager of Media Services 

Harvard Law School
 
<http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=205+Pound+Hall&csz=Cambridge
%2C+MA+02138&country=us> 205 Pound Hall
1563 Mass. Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 


 <mailto:ddechristopher@...> ddechristopher@... 


tel: 
fax: 
mobile: 

617-496-2715
617-496-6645
617-620-4587 

 



 <http://www.plaxo.com/signature> Want a signature like this?

| From "Darby DeChristopher" <ddechristopher@...> 
    | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:54:59 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | We use audacity to trim the tail and head of MP3's recorded here at Harvard
    | Law School.  
    | 
    | We play the file and then press the space key when we hear the beginning 
    | (or  end) of the class.  We would like to then cut to this point or from this
    | point to delete the unwanted audio, but when you press the space key the
    | cursor returns back to where you were originally playing from.
    | 
    | Is there any setting that could be altered or is there a key command to 
    | get  the cursor to stop where it is in the audio file when you press the 
    | space key and not return?

You can click in the track where you hear the start or end and then 
click spacebar. This will place the cursor at the point you clicked 
and allow you to click Edit > Select > "Start to Cursor"  or Edit  > 
Select > "Cursor to End" as appropriate, then Edit > Delete to 
perform your task. You can alternatively play or scroll through 
in one go and press CTRL + M (the hotkey for Project > Add Label 
at Playback Position) where you hear the start and end of the class.
This will add a Label at these points in a new Label Track. You can 
click in the label to recall the cursor to that point then perform the 
selections and deletions as above. The CTRL + M hotkey can be 
changed (e.g. to "M") at Edit > Preferences > Keyboard.

It is not likely to matter much with a speech recording, but note 
that opening an MP3 in Audacity, editing it then re-exporting it as
MP3 or other lossy format like OGG is technically destructive to the 
audio because it recompresses what was already compressed in the 
first place. There are some other programs you could use to perform 
simple cuts, copy, paste, fades and volume adjustments directly on 
the MP3 without decompressing and recompressing it as Audacity 
does.  


MP3 Direct Cut (Windows) 
http://www.mpesch3.de/

Audion (OS X)
http://www.panic.com/audion/


Gale Andrews
    


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 8/31/2006 6:42:09 PM

Thank you for the quick response, you have been very helpful.
Darby

Manager of Media Services
Harvard Law School
617-496-2715
-----Original Message-----
From: gale@... [mailto:gale@...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:42 PM
To: Darby DeChristopher
Cc: audacity-help@...
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


    | From "Darby DeChristopher" <ddechristopher@...> 
    | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:54:59 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | We use audacity to trim the tail and head of MP3's recorded here at
Harvard
    | Law School.  
    | 
    | We play the file and then press the space key when we hear the
beginning 
    | (or  end) of the class.  We would like to then cut to this point or
from this
    | point to delete the unwanted audio, but when you press the space key
the
    | cursor returns back to where you were originally playing from.
    | 
    | Is there any setting that could be altered or is there a key command
to 
    | get  the cursor to stop where it is in the audio file when you press
the 
    | space key and not return?

You can click in the track where you hear the start or end and then 
click spacebar. This will place the cursor at the point you clicked 
and allow you to click Edit > Select > "Start to Cursor"  or Edit  > 
Select > "Cursor to End" as appropriate, then Edit > Delete to 
perform your task. You can alternatively play or scroll through 
in one go and press CTRL + M (the hotkey for Project > Add Label 
at Playback Position) where you hear the start and end of the class.
This will add a Label at these points in a new Label Track. You can 
click in the label to recall the cursor to that point then perform the 
selections and deletions as above. The CTRL + M hotkey can be 
changed (e.g. to "M") at Edit > Preferences > Keyboard.

It is not likely to matter much with a speech recording, but note 
that opening an MP3 in Audacity, editing it then re-exporting it as
MP3 or other lossy format like OGG is technically destructive to the 
audio because it recompresses what was already compressed in the 
first place. There are some other programs you could use to perform 
simple cuts, copy, paste, fades and volume adjustments directly on 
the MP3 without decompressing and recompressing it as Audacity 
does.  


MP3 Direct Cut (Windows) 
http://www.mpesch3.de/

Audion (OS X)
http://www.panic.com/audion/


Gale Andrews
    


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 8/31/2006 6:42:09 PM

i was wandering if there is a way to convert wav or other files to mp3 format  please help me
 		
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
 Everyone is raving about the  all-new Yahoo! Mail.

| From jonny walker <hawb_22@...> 
    | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | i was wandering if there is a way to convert wav or other files 
    |  to mp3 format  

Yes, but you need to add the LAME MP3 encoder to your computer
to export your recordings to MP3 from Audacity.

Download the correct version of the LAME encoder for your system, 
as detailed in the Windows or Mac links below. When downloading, 
please disable any download managers you may have and left-click 
on the link (do not right-click).

** Windows ** 

Download one of these zip files 
http://omega.med.yale.edu/%7Epcy5/lame-3.96.1.zip
http://www.brezza.net/lame-3.96.1.zip

and unzip the contents to a location of your choice. If you need an unzipper,
use the evaluation version of Winzip
http://www.winzip.com/downwzeval.htm 

The full LAME download above gives you both lame_enc.dll (which is all
Audacity needs), and the complete LAME.exe MP3 encoder. LAME.exe
has more MP3 encoding options than are available by running lame_enc.dll 
from Audacity, but it needs to be run separately from the command line. So 
if you wanted to use LAME.exe externally, you'd export your Audacity 
recording to WAV or AIFF, and convert the WAV/AIFF to MP3 by running
LAME.exe from the location you unzipped it to. You can also drop your
WAV or AIFF onto lame.exe and the MP3 will be encoded at default values,
or use an alternative interface for LAME like CD-EX (also a good CD 
extraction tool)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

or RazorLame 
http://www.dors.de/razorlame/index.php

However for general  purposes it's easier just to use lame_enc.dll to convert 
directly to MP3 inside Audacity. If that is all you want to do, you can download
lame_enc.dll directly here instead:
http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/lame_enc.dll

and save it to a location of your choice. The first time you export an MP3
from Audacity, it will simply ask you for the location of lame_enc.dll. 
You then set the bitrate of the exported MP3 in Audacity Preferences >
File Formats tab > MP3 Export Setup. The default bitrate is 128 kbps. 
A higher bitrate gives you higher quality at the expense of a larger
filesize, and vice-versa. 


** Mac **  

For OS 8/9 download 
http://spaghetticode.org/lame/LameLib.sit

For OS X download
http://spaghetticode.org/lame/LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit

When you have finished downloading, use Stuffit Expander to extract 
the files (this may happen automatically).  Save the file called "LameLib" 
anywhere on your computer. The first time you use the "Export as MP3" 
command, Audacity will ask you where LameLib is saved.

If you do not have Stuffit, it's here:
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html

On  OS X Lame may not work if stored in a folder with a long name or 
accented characters. You set the bitrate of the exported MP3 in Audacity
at Edit > Preferences > File Formats > MP3 Export Setup. The default 
bitrate is 128 kbps. A higher bitrate gives you higher quality at the 
expense of a larger filesize, and vice-versa. 

Note also you may receive this error when exporting MP3s

"Assertion (gfc->mf_size <= MFSIZE)  failed  in "lame.c" on line 1501"

Unfortunately it's a bug in the LAME encoder library prior to version 3.93.
There is not a more recent version of  LAME for OS X, although source 
code and Windows releases are at 3.96 and do not have this problem.

If you receive this error frequently you could try exporting as 
AIFF from Audacity then compiling LAME from the source code 
available at:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/download.html

or alternatively use iTunes to convert to export the AIFF to MP3. You set 
the conversion format in iTunes Preferences under Advanced > Importing > 
Import using MP3 encoder. Then you have a right-click option to convert
each file.  

You can also use this program
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13048  
 
to allow the full LAME encoder to launch when encoding to MP3
with iTunes. Otherwise iTunes uses its own MP3 encoder and has 
fewer encoding options than LAME, though more than Audacity. 


Gale Andrews




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/1/2006 5:51:10 AM

I cut some part of a instrumental music that I didn't need.  After that
I tried to listen the result but, I see the wave on the screen but there
is some part that I don't ear  ? I did not put any silence on the
music...  What did I do wrong and or  can I still get back the sound ?

=20

Eric Robertson

Materiel management

Hopital de Hawkesbury

Hawkesbury, Ontario

K6A 3G5

613-632-1111 Ext: 290
=20
=20
Cette communication doit etre recue seulement par le/la destinataire(s) =
et l'information contenue est de nature privilegiee, confidentielle et =
sujette au droit d'auteur. Tout emploi non autorise de ce message est =
interdit. Si cette communication vous a ete acheminee par erreur, =
veuillez en aviser le/la soussigne(e) immediatement. Merci.=20
This communication is intended to be received by the individual or =
entity to whom or to which it is addressed and contains information that =
is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorized =
use, copying, review or disclosure is prohibited. If received in error, =
please contact the sender immediately. Thank you.

| From "Robertson, Eric" <erobertson@...> 
    | Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:49:13 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I cut some part of a instrumental music that I didn't need.  After that
    | I tried to listen the result but, I see the wave on the screen but there
    | is some part that I don't ear  ? I did not put any silence on the
    | music...  What did I do wrong and or  can I still get back the sound ?

The problem is almost certainly that you imported a WAV or AIFF file
into Audacity to start this project, using Audacity's default behaviour of
reading this data directly from the disc, but have now moved this file
which the project depends on to another location, deleted it, renamed it,
or the removable drive it resides on is not present. You will have sound 
only on the parts of the waveform that represent an edit you made 
(because Audacity saved that edited data in the Project folder).

The file(s) that you originally used to read data into the project are marked
as "aliasfile" in the .aup project file. You can open the.aup file in a text
editor to see the original location of these files, and if you can restore them
to the path noted in the .aup file, the project will have sound again.

By default Audacity imports uncompressed data such as WAV by reading it 
directly, in order to speed up the import and to avoid rapidly consuming the
user's disc space which would occur if a copy was made. This practice
is normal with media editors, however it does require that the original 
audio file still be present, whereas in your case unfortunately it isn't.  
 
To avoid this problem in future when importing WAV or AIFF files, either 
retain the original audio file or set Audacity to make a copy of the file, 
which will then be stored in the Project's _data folder when the Project
is saved. You set Audacity to make a copy of the imported data by clicking  
Edit > Preferences > File Formats : "when importing uncompressed audio....",
check the radio button "make a copy of the file before editing". Note this 
issue does not arise if importing compressed data such as an MP3 file,
as Audacity automatically makes a copy upon import.

If this is not the problem, the only other reason that comes to mind is that
you have applied a change pitch or change tempo affect, as a result of 
which the audio you hear playing on the Project sometimes does not any 
longer correspond with the cursor position on the waveform. This is 
corrected upon export.


Gale Andrews
 


 


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/6/2006 1:30:58 AM

j'ai acheter la platine audacity mais je n'ai pas la notice en français comment ce la  procurer  merci d'avance de me répondre

Hello,
My name is Dave and I was just wondering if it is possible to use a
microphone that is plugged into a computer or lap top and record to the hard
drive using Audacity.  And if so, how is it done.
 
Thank you,
dave.

| From "David E. Gola" <davideg60@...> 
    | Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:10:37 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | My name is Dave and I was just wondering if it is possible to use a
    | microphone that is plugged into a computer or lap top and record 
    | to the hard drive using Audacity.  And if so, how is it done.
   
   
Yes Audacity can record from these basic sources 

(1) external microphone plugged into the microphone port 
(2) line-level external sources such as record players, minidiscs, or
electric instruments. You can also record from higher quality 
microphones that need additional power so are connected through
a mixer or pre-amplifier that attaches to the computer's line-in.
They can also be connected through a USB or Firewire audio 
interface device. 
(3) on Windows and Linux, you can record any sound the computer
is playing such as internet broadcasts
(4) you can also record from microphones that connect to the 
computer via its USB port  but these have drawbacks in terms of 
higher latency (extra delay in the time taken to lay down the
recording on the disk), and you cannot record more than one of 
these microphones at a time. 

If you decide to use Audacity to record with a microphone, I 
have pasted in all the steps you need below. 

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system 
you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4) and what version of Audacity 
you are using (see Help > About in the program). 

Gale Andrews

****************************************************************

1  Click Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab and check that the 
    playback and recording devices are explicitly set to your inbuilt 
    sound, or if you have multiple sound devices (e.g. built-in sound 
    and an external USB soundcard or a USB microphone) then you 
    need to choose the ones you want to use in the Audio I/O tab. 

2  If you want to record in stereo, change the recording channels 
    on the same Audio I/O tab to "2 (stereo)". 

3  Now you have to set the recording source for the device you 
    are recording from. You can do this on Audacity's mixer toolbar 
    dropdown selector :
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

    If your microphone is plugged into the microphone port on the 
    computer, choose "microphone" or "mic" on the dropdown 
    selector.  If your microphone is plugged into a mixer connected    
    to line-in on the computer, choose "line-in". If you are using a 
    USB microphone, or the device your microphone is plugged into 
    connects via USB or Firewire, the dropdown selector is normally 
    greyed out whilst the USB microphone or USB/Firewire device is 
    chosen as recording device in the Audio I/O tab. Therefore, skip 
    step 3 unless you are on OS X. 

    If you are on OS X, note the mixer toolbar will be always be greyed 
    out on "default source" whatever recording device is chosen in 
    Audacity's Audio I/O tab. This is normal, but you need to make the 
    source you want to record from (e.g. microphone, line-in, USB 
    microphone, Firewire mixer) to be the default recording source 
    in Apple Sound and Midi Setup. 

4  Next, set the volume level of your recording input. Right-click on 
    the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red) recording 
    level meters
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm

    and click "monitor input". While speaking or singing into your 
    microphone as loud as you would for the loudest part of what 
    you want to record, adjust the recording level slider on the mixer 
    toolbar so the recording meters are almost reaching the far right
    hand side (but not far enough to bring the red hold lights on). 
    If the recording level meters are not visible, click Edit > 
    Preferences >  Interface > Enable Meter Toolbar.

5  Decide if you want to "monitor" your recording, that is, hear it
    played back as you make it. If you do, and you are on Windows or 
    Linux, open the system sound mixer e.g. Sounds and Audio devices
    in the Windows control panel, and unmute microphone or line-in (as 
    appropriate) as a playback device, and turn the volume up. If you are 
    on OS X, simply go back to the Audacity Audio I/O tab and enable 
    "hardware playthrough". If this does not work, or if the playback and 
    recording devices on Audio I/O tab are different, choose "software
    playthrough" on the same Audio I/O tab, which works on all operating 
    systems.

    If you do monitor your recording, we recommend using headphones 
    as this will prevent the playback of the recording seeping into the
    recording itself, which could cause an echo, or the recording to be 
    too loud. 

6  Create a new Project by clicking File > Save Project As. Start your 
    recording by pressing the red record button. You can pause and 
    restart the recording with the blue pause button. When you have 
    finished recording, press the red stop button and save your recording 
    into the Project you started (File > Save Project). Now the data is 
    safe, you can edit it in Audacity if you want to (e.g. cut pieces out), 
    or come back to it later by re-opening the saved Project file (File > 
    Open). See here for explanations of basic editing processes
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner2.html
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner3.htmli 
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner4.html

7  When you are happy with the recording, you need to export it as an 
    audio file (File > Export) that you can play on your computer. If you 
    export the recording as a WAV or AIFF file, you can also burn that file 
    to an audio CD. See: 
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd

8  If you want to export your recording to an MP3 file, you need to
    add the LAME encoder to your computer. See:
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3  




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/16/2006 6:19:38 PM

L'aide int=E9gr=E9e est en fin de traduction et sera disponible prochaine=
ment.
En attendant, vous pouvez t=E9l=E9charger le manuel (plus complet) sur :
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/audacity-fr-manuel-1.2.zip


Cordialement

Christian Brochec, traducteur
Assistance francophone d'Audacity

christian@...

balsan bernard a =E9crit :
> j'ai acheter la platine audacity mais je n'ai pas la notice en fran=E7a=
is comment ce la  procurer  merci d'avance de me r=E9pondre
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
--
> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, securit=
y?
> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job =
easier
> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geron=
imo
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat=
=3D121642
>  =20

Bonjour,

J'ai téléchargé et décomprimé audacity et en faisant ./configure il me 
demande où est wxWindows ??

Je travaille avec linux mandrake 9.1 et je n'est pas trouvé le moyen de 
trouver ce logiciel, j'ai réussi à téléchargé   
wxwin-common-2.3.2-4.i386.rpm mais apparemment cela ne correspond pas 
mauvaise signature...

Comment faire ?

Je vous remercie beaucoup si vous pouvez m'aider

Jean-Noël André


-- 
Jean-Noël André
Espace Art Nature
Au Vieux Couvent
courriel : espaceqc@...
téléphone : 1 418 876-2209
site internet : http://www.espaceartnature.com

N'utilisant pas Linux, je ne peux vous aider sur ce point pr=E9cis. Si=20
vous ma=EEtrisez l'anglais, je vous invite =E0 r=E9diger un nouveau messa=
ge en=20
anglais qui sera pris en compte par l'aide anglophone (nettement plus=20
fournie que la francophone qui se limite =E0 ma seule personne).
Sinon, recontactez-moi et j'assurerai l'interface.
Dans tous les cas, merci de donner le maximum de renseignements pour=20
permettre un diagnostic rapide.
Cordialement

Christian Brochec, traducteur
Assistance francophone d'Audacity

christian@...

------------------------------------------------------------------------


Jean-No=EBl Andr=E9 a =E9crit :
> Bonjour,
>
> J'ai t=E9l=E9charg=E9 et d=E9comprim=E9 audacity et en faisant ./config=
ure il me=20
> demande o=F9 est wxWindows ??
>
> Je travaille avec linux mandrake 9.1 et je n'est pas trouv=E9 le moyen=20
> de trouver ce logiciel, j'ai r=E9ussi =E0 t=E9l=E9charg=E9  =20
> wxwin-common-2.3.2-4.i386.rpm mais apparemment cela ne correspond pas=20
> mauvaise signature...
>
> Comment faire ?
>
> Je vous remercie beaucoup si vous pouvez m'aider
>
> Jean-No=EBl Andr=E9
>
>
> --=20
> Jean-No=EBl Andr=E9
> Espace Art Nature
> Au Vieux Couvent
> courriel : espaceqc@...
> t=E9l=E9phone : 1 418 876-2209
> site internet : http://www.espaceartnature.com
>  =20
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
--
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share=
 your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=3Djoin.php&p=3Dsourceforge&CID=3D=
DEVDEV

To whom it may concern

I heard rumors that you are developing a function where you can  
compare your own recordings visualy with original recordings.
If so, when is it due?

I am having trouble recording music off of my sound board. For example, =
I subscribe to Pandora.com and would like to record some of the songs. =
When I record, nothing is registered. I use the "wave" mode and tried =
the others.. nothing seems to work. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks.. =
Peter

Peter Studner
studner@...
310-722-1340
FAX 866-544-0102

| From  <supersearch@...> 
    | Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:35:26 -0700
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am having trouble recording music off of my sound board.
    | For example, I subscribe to Pandora.com and would like 
    | to record some of the songs. When I record, nothing is registered. 
    | I use the "wave" mode and tried the others.. nothing seems to work.

It depends what the problem is. "Wave" or "Wave out" ought to be the 
correct recording source to select on Audacity's mixer toolbar dropdown
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

but something else may not be set up correctly, or the sound drivers
may be broken (as they often are on Windows machines) so that you 
are not actually selecting "wave out" even if it appears that you are. 
You can however try selecting "wave out" in the system sound mixer
instead of in Audacity. 

Please go through the checklist I have pasted in below this message
and see if it helps. Note you can also record the computer output by 
running a cable from line-out to line-in on the back of the computer, 
then set the recording source to line-in. However if the sound drivers
are very broken, you may still have to update them before you can 
do this.  

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system 
you are on (e.g. Windows XP) and what version of Audacity you are 
using (see Help > About in the program). 

Gale Andrews


**************************************************************** 
1 IS A WAVEFORM WITH PEAKS AND TROUGHS BEING DRAWN 
   IN AUDACITY WHEN YOU TRY TO RECORD? 

If no, go to section 2 below.

If yes, a recording is being made. If you cannot hear your recording
when you stop the recording and try to play it back, click Edit > 
Preferences > Audio I/O tab and make sure your soundcard or inbuilt 
sound (or other device you want to send the sound to) is explicitly
selected as the playback device. Do not select Microsoft SoundMapper 
if you are on Windows.  Make sure your device sound is not muted. 
Make sure the left hand volume slider on Audacity's mixer toolbar is 
turned up as this controls the playback output in Audacity. 

2  IF YOU CANNOT GET ANY WAVEFORM IN AUDACITY WHEN YOU ARE 
   TRYING TO RECORD:

a) Make sure in Preferences > Audio I/O tab that you have the recording 
    device explicitly set to your soundcard or built-in sound (do not use 
    Microsoft SoundMapper if you are on Windows). 

b) Right-click on the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red)
    recording level meters 
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm

    and click "monitor input". While playing your web broadcast, adjust
    the recording level slider on the mixer toolbar (by the microphone
    symbol) so the recording meters are almost reaching the far right 
    hand side (but not far enough to bring the red hold lights on). If the
    recording level meters are not visible, click Edit > Preferences >
    Interface > Enable Meter Toolbar. 

c) If with "wave out" selected on the mixer toolbar, you still get no 
    waveform when the input volume is turned up, try selecting "wave 
    out" as the recording source in the system Control Panel. For 
    example on Windows: click Start > (Settings) > Sounds, Speech 
    and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices (or click on the
    speaker icon in the System Tray) and click on Audio tab. Click on
    Volume under the Sound Recording panel, and try selecting 
    "Wave out" there. 

d) If that does not help, update the sound device drivers to the latest
    ones for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound 
    device or motherboard. On Windows you can try updating your 
    sound drivers in Device Manager.  Click Start > Settings > Control
    Panel > System > click on Hardware tab, and click the "Device 
    Manager" button. Expand "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" by 
    clicking on the + sign, right-click on your sound device and click
    "Update Drivers". Do not use any drivers from Microsoft as these are 
    only generic drivers. If you cannot get non-Microsoft drivers go to 
    the website of the motherboard or sound device manufacturer for 
    assistance or to download new drivers. Any drivers you download
    must be specifically for your computer model and version of 
    Windows. 






Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/24/2006 8:32:01 PM

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:26 +0200, Katarina Fornell wrote:
> I heard rumors that you are developing a function where you can  
> compare your own recordings visualy with original recordings.
> If so, when is it due?

We have nothing currently under development in this area.

If you mean being able to display the waveform of both recordings, you
can do this in any version of audacity by simply importing both files
into the same project using Project > Import Audio.

Richard Ash

| From Richard Ash <richard@...> 
    | Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:47:40 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:26 +0200, Katarina Fornell wrote:
    | > I heard rumors that you are developing a function where you can  
    | > compare your own recordings visualy with original recordings.
    | > If so, when is it due?
    | We have nothing currently under development in this area.
    | If you mean being able to display the waveform of both recordings, you
    | can do this in any version of audacity by simply importing both files
    | into the same project using Project > Import Audio.

I don't think we really know what you want to do. If you have in mind 
to record your own version of some artist's vocal, then you cannot 
usefully compare it with the original (e.g. on an imported MP3 file)
because you won't have access to the vocal track on its own which is 
mixed into the MP3. It's not generally possible to isolate the vocal out of 
a file that is a mix of vocal and backing track, so you wouldn't be 
comparing tracks that were remotely similar. 

Gale Andrews




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/25/2006 9:00:57 PM

Thanks for your advice.... I do not see the mixer drop down... this is what 
I see when I open audacity .4 version.


this pull down does not show

What do I need to do to expose it?

thanks.. peter

Peter Studner
studner@...
310-722-1340
FAX 866-544-0102

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gale@...>
To: "Peter K. Studner Associates, Inc./Jamenair Ltd." 
<supersearch@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From  <supersearch@...>
>    | Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:35:26 -0700
>    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>    | I am having trouble recording music off of my sound board.
>    | For example, I subscribe to Pandora.com and would like
>    | to record some of the songs. When I record, nothing is registered.
>    | I use the "wave" mode and tried the others.. nothing seems to work.
>
> It depends what the problem is. "Wave" or "Wave out" ought to be the
> correct recording source to select on Audacity's mixer toolbar dropdown
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm
>
> but something else may not be set up correctly, or the sound drivers
> may be broken (as they often are on Windows machines) so that you
> are not actually selecting "wave out" even if it appears that you are.
> You can however try selecting "wave out" in the system sound mixer
> instead of in Audacity.
>
> Please go through the checklist I have pasted in below this message
> and see if it helps. Note you can also record the computer output by
> running a cable from line-out to line-in on the back of the computer,
> then set the recording source to line-in. However if the sound drivers
> are very broken, you may still have to update them before you can
> do this.
>
> If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system
> you are on (e.g. Windows XP) and what version of Audacity you are
> using (see Help > About in the program).
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
> ****************************************************************
> 1 IS A WAVEFORM WITH PEAKS AND TROUGHS BEING DRAWN
>   IN AUDACITY WHEN YOU TRY TO RECORD?
>
> If no, go to section 2 below.
>
> If yes, a recording is being made. If you cannot hear your recording
> when you stop the recording and try to play it back, click Edit >
> Preferences > Audio I/O tab and make sure your soundcard or inbuilt
> sound (or other device you want to send the sound to) is explicitly
> selected as the playback device. Do not select Microsoft SoundMapper
> if you are on Windows.  Make sure your device sound is not muted.
> Make sure the left hand volume slider on Audacity's mixer toolbar is
> turned up as this controls the playback output in Audacity.
>
> 2  IF YOU CANNOT GET ANY WAVEFORM IN AUDACITY WHEN YOU ARE
>   TRYING TO RECORD:
>
> a) Make sure in Preferences > Audio I/O tab that you have the recording
>    device explicitly set to your soundcard or built-in sound (do not use
>    Microsoft SoundMapper if you are on Windows).
>
> b) Right-click on the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red)
>    recording level meters
>    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm
>
>    and click "monitor input". While playing your web broadcast, adjust
>    the recording level slider on the mixer toolbar (by the microphone
>    symbol) so the recording meters are almost reaching the far right
>    hand side (but not far enough to bring the red hold lights on). If the
>    recording level meters are not visible, click Edit > Preferences >
>    Interface > Enable Meter Toolbar.
>
> c) If with "wave out" selected on the mixer toolbar, you still get no
>    waveform when the input volume is turned up, try selecting "wave
>    out" as the recording source in the system Control Panel. For
>    example on Windows: click Start > (Settings) > Sounds, Speech
>    and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices (or click on the
>    speaker icon in the System Tray) and click on Audio tab. Click on
>    Volume under the Sound Recording panel, and try selecting
>    "Wave out" there.
>
> d) If that does not help, update the sound device drivers to the latest
>    ones for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound
>    device or motherboard. On Windows you can try updating your
>    sound drivers in Device Manager.  Click Start > Settings > Control
>    Panel > System > click on Hardware tab, and click the "Device
>    Manager" button. Expand "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" by
>    clicking on the + sign, right-click on your sound device and click
>    "Update Drivers". Do not use any drivers from Microsoft as these are
>    only generic drivers. If you cannot get non-Microsoft drivers go to
>    the website of the motherboard or sound device manufacturer for
>    assistance or to download new drivers. Any drivers you download
>    must be specifically for your computer model and version of
>    Windows.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 9/24/2006 8:32:01 PM
>
>
>
>
>

Gale   I am really frustrated with getting this to work.. once upon a time 
this worked.. but something has changed ... I do not get stereo mix or wave 
out.. just wave... what next.. ? I get no wave pattern or any recording 
action.. just a moving bar across the screen.. am using windows XP second 
update..
thanks for your help..peter


Peter Studner
studner@...
310-722-1340
FAX 866-544-0102
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From  <supersearch@...>
>    | Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:35:26 -0700
>    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>    | I am having trouble recording music off of my sound board.
>    | For example, I subscribe to Pandora.com and would like
>    | to record some of the songs. When I record, nothing is registered.
>    | I use the "wave" mode and tried the others.. nothing seems to work.
>
> It depends what the problem is. "Wave" or "Wave out" ought to be the
> correct recording source to select on Audacity's mixer toolbar dropdown
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm
>
> but something else may not be set up correctly, or the sound drivers
> may be broken (as they often are on Windows machines) so that you
> are not actually selecting "wave out" even if it appears that you are.
> You can however try selecting "wave out" in the system sound mixer
> instead of in Audacity.
>
> Please go through the checklist I have pasted in below this message
> and see if it helps. Note you can also record the computer output by
> running a cable from line-out to line-in on the back of the computer,
> then set the recording source to line-in. However if the sound drivers
> are very broken, you may still have to update them before you can
> do this.
>
> If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system
> you are on (e.g. Windows XP) and what version of Audacity you are
> using (see Help > About in the program).
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
> ****************************************************************
> 1 IS A WAVEFORM WITH PEAKS AND TROUGHS BEING DRAWN
>   IN AUDACITY WHEN YOU TRY TO RECORD?
>
> If no, go to section 2 below.
>
> If yes, a recording is being made. If you cannot hear your recording
> when you stop the recording and try to play it back, click Edit >
> Preferences > Audio I/O tab and make sure your soundcard or inbuilt
> sound (or other device you want to send the sound to) is explicitly
> selected as the playback device. Do not select Microsoft SoundMapper
> if you are on Windows.  Make sure your device sound is not muted.
> Make sure the left hand volume slider on Audacity's mixer toolbar is
> turned up as this controls the playback output in Audacity.
>
> 2  IF YOU CANNOT GET ANY WAVEFORM IN AUDACITY WHEN YOU ARE
>   TRYING TO RECORD:
>
> a) Make sure in Preferences > Audio I/O tab that you have the recording
>    device explicitly set to your soundcard or built-in sound (do not use
>    Microsoft SoundMapper if you are on Windows).
>
> b) Right-click on the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red)
>    recording level meters
>    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm
>
>    and click "monitor input". While playing your web broadcast, adjust
>    the recording level slider on the mixer toolbar (by the microphone
>    symbol) so the recording meters are almost reaching the far right
>    hand side (but not far enough to bring the red hold lights on). If the
>    recording level meters are not visible, click Edit > Preferences >
>    Interface > Enable Meter Toolbar.
>
> c) If with "wave out" selected on the mixer toolbar, you still get no
>    waveform when the input volume is turned up, try selecting "wave
>    out" as the recording source in the system Control Panel. For
>    example on Windows: click Start > (Settings) > Sounds, Speech
>    and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices (or click on the
>    speaker icon in the System Tray) and click on Audio tab. Click on
>    Volume under the Sound Recording panel, and try selecting
>    "Wave out" there.
>
> d) If that does not help, update the sound device drivers to the latest
>    ones for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound
>    device or motherboard. On Windows you can try updating your
>    sound drivers in Device Manager.  Click Start > Settings > Control
>    Panel > System > click on Hardware tab, and click the "Device
>    Manager" button. Expand "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" by
>    clicking on the + sign, right-click on your sound device and click
>    "Update Drivers". Do not use any drivers from Microsoft as these are
>    only generic drivers. If you cannot get non-Microsoft drivers go to
>    the website of the motherboard or sound device manufacturer for
>    assistance or to download new drivers. Any drivers you download
>    must be specifically for your computer model and version of
>    Windows.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 9/24/2006 8:32:01 PM
>
>
>
>
>

| From <supersearch@...> 
    | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:38:00 -0700
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I do not see the mixer drop down... this is what 
    | I see when I open audacity .4 version.
    | this pull down does not show
    | What do I need to do to expose it?

Do you mean Audacity 1.2.4? We must know what operating system you 
are on (e.g. Windows XP), or we cannot help further. You sent a 
screenshot of the Audacity mixer toolbar as it appears on Linux. Are you
on Linux? 

Last time you said you had used "wave" mode and other sources but it
did not work, by which we assumed you meant you had been able to  
select these and other sources in Audacity's mixer toolbar, but it did not
record what the computer was playing. So can you make selections in 
Audacity's mixer toolbar, or is it greyed out so you cannot select anything
in it? 

Have you tried selecting "wave" as the recording source in the system
control panel e.g. Windows Sounds and Audio devices as I suggested
(or in any special control panel the sound device has)?

Have you updated the sound drivers as I suggested to the latest ones 
for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound device or
motherboard? This is your best chance of getting the Audacity mixer 
toolbar operational, if you are unable even to select "wave" as recording 
source in the system Control Panel.  

You can write back if you need more help but please make sure you 
tell us what operating system you are on and tell us where you were 
selecting wave and the other sources before. And when you said 
"nothing is registered", do you mean a waveform with peaks 
and troughs is being drawn in Audacity when you try to record, or 
do you only get a straight line? 

 
Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/27/2006 6:47:22 AM

| From  <supersearch@...> 
    | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:35:16 -0700
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am really frustrated with getting this to work.. once upon a
    | time this worked.. but something has changed 

If something changed it is usually because the user changed it. Or have
you got a new computer or new sound device since the last time it 
worked? If you have recently installed Service Pack 2 it's quite possible
you may have to update the sound drivers.  

    | I do not get stereo mix or wave 
    | out.. just wave... what next.. ? I get no wave pattern or any 0
    | recording action.. just a moving bar across the screen.. am using
    |  windows XP second  update.

If you are certain you have got the input volume turned up on the 
mixer toolbar in Audacity, you have to do what I have said before  
i.e. go into Start > (Settings) > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices > 
Sounds and Audio Devices (or click on the speaker icon in the System 
Tray) and click on Audio tab. Click on Volume under the Sound 
Recording panel, and try selecting "Wave out" there. If that does not help,
go back and click on Volume under the Sound Recording panel again, but
this time click Options > Properties, select the sound device in the Mixer
Device panel and ensure all the boxes in the window below are checked. If
the recording input source you want is listed in that window it should now
appear in Audacity's input selector, or when you click on Recording
Device > Volume on the same Audio tab of Windows Sounds and Audio 
Devices applet.

The option you want (if you have changed sound drivers or otherwise
updated your system or computer) may now be called "what u hear",
"loopback" or something else than stereo mix. 

Does your line-in work (or have you got one)? You can record the computer
output by running a cable from line-out to line-in on the back of the
computer, then choose line-in as the recording source in the Audacity
dropdown or in Sounds and Audio Devices.

Otherwise, update the sound device drivers (or even reinstall them from 
the drivers CD that came with the computer if you believe they may have 
become corrupted).

Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/27/2006 7:16:05 AM

I am using XP Home edition with service pack 2 and have Audacity 1.2.4. I am 
selecting wave sources from the Internet radio stations.  My source is 
Pandora.com which is radio.. nothing else. When I pull down the only pull 
down menu I have the following choices
Wave
tad-in
aux
microphone
Line in
CD admin
MIDI
CD sig
SPDIF-in


When I did use your program it was to record radio.. and that worked fine... 
but that was quite a while ago.. I have not changed my system or hardware 
since.. same computer... a typical dell 600 hz unit.. I go on line with DSL 
wireless... and get a strong signal.
There is no wave out or wave in or stereo mix or nothing else..
I get only a straight line when recording..
hope you can now help.. would it help to remove audacity and down load 
another version ? maybe this one is corrupt?



Peter Studner
studner@...
310-722-1340
FAX 866-544-0102

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gale@...>
To: "Peter K. Studner Associates, Inc./Jamenair Ltd." 
<supersearch@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From <supersearch@...>
>    | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:38:00 -0700
>    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>    | I do not see the mixer drop down... this is what
>    | I see when I open audacity .4 version.
>    | this pull down does not show
>    | What do I need to do to expose it?
>
> Do you mean Audacity 1.2.4? We must know what operating system you
> are on (e.g. Windows XP), or we cannot help further. You sent a
> screenshot of the Audacity mixer toolbar as it appears on Linux. Are you
> on Linux?
>
> Last time you said you had used "wave" mode and other sources but it
> did not work, by which we assumed you meant you had been able to
> select these and other sources in Audacity's mixer toolbar, but it did not
> record what the computer was playing. So can you make selections in
> Audacity's mixer toolbar, or is it greyed out so you cannot select 
> anything
> in it?
>
> Have you tried selecting "wave" as the recording source in the system
> control panel e.g. Windows Sounds and Audio devices as I suggested
> (or in any special control panel the sound device has)?
>
> Have you updated the sound drivers as I suggested to the latest ones
> for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound device or
> motherboard? This is your best chance of getting the Audacity mixer
> toolbar operational, if you are unable even to select "wave" as recording
> source in the system Control Panel.
>
> You can write back if you need more help but please make sure you
> tell us what operating system you are on and tell us where you were
> selecting wave and the other sources before. And when you said
> "nothing is registered", do you mean a waveform with peaks
> and troughs is being drawn in Audacity when you try to record, or
> do you only get a straight line?
>
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 9/27/2006 6:47:22 AM
>
>
>
>
>

Gale.. I think I figured out something.. at long last.. I have version 
1.2.3. on my laptop and it has the pull down menu near the top of my pc.. 
not the bottom.. as I sent to you. Can you pse give me a link to that 
version so I can install it on my desktop at home... that might be the 
solution. I have chosen stereo mix for the setting at home.. does that give 
me a stereo signal that is in the music? Is that the right setting? It 
works.
thank so much for your patience in trying to help me... really appreciate it 
a lot. Best, peter


Peter K. Studner
Studner@...
310-722-1340
FAX 866-544-0102

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gale@...>
To: "Peter K. Studner Associates, Inc./Jamenair Ltd." 
<supersearch@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From  <supersearch@...>
>    | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:35:16 -0700
>    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>    | I am really frustrated with getting this to work.. once upon a
>    | time this worked.. but something has changed
>
> If something changed it is usually because the user changed it. Or have
> you got a new computer or new sound device since the last time it
> worked? If you have recently installed Service Pack 2 it's quite possible
> you may have to update the sound drivers.
>
>    | I do not get stereo mix or wave
>    | out.. just wave... what next.. ? I get no wave pattern or any 0
>    | recording action.. just a moving bar across the screen.. am using
>    |  windows XP second  update.
>
> If you are certain you have got the input volume turned up on the
> mixer toolbar in Audacity, you have to do what I have said before
> i.e. go into Start > (Settings) > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices >
> Sounds and Audio Devices (or click on the speaker icon in the System
> Tray) and click on Audio tab. Click on Volume under the Sound
> Recording panel, and try selecting "Wave out" there. If that does not 
> help,
> go back and click on Volume under the Sound Recording panel again, but
> this time click Options > Properties, select the sound device in the Mixer
> Device panel and ensure all the boxes in the window below are checked. If
> the recording input source you want is listed in that window it should now
> appear in Audacity's input selector, or when you click on Recording
> Device > Volume on the same Audio tab of Windows Sounds and Audio
> Devices applet.
>
> The option you want (if you have changed sound drivers or otherwise
> updated your system or computer) may now be called "what u hear",
> "loopback" or something else than stereo mix.
>
> Does your line-in work (or have you got one)? You can record the computer
> output by running a cable from line-out to line-in on the back of the
> computer, then choose line-in as the recording source in the Audacity
> dropdown or in Sounds and Audio Devices.
>
> Otherwise, update the sound device drivers (or even reinstall them from
> the drivers CD that came with the computer if you believe they may have
> become corrupted).
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 9/27/2006 7:16:05 AM
>
>
>
>
>

| From  <supersearch@...> 
    | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:06:03 -0700
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am using XP Home edition with service pack 2 and have
    | Audacity 1.2.4. I am selecting wave sources from the Internet 
    | radio stations.  My source is Pandora.com which is radio.. 

I don't know what you mean by wave sources. Isn't all your are doing 
visiting their site and listening to one of their "radio stations" (i.e. a random selection of related tracks) through your computer speakers?
Incidentally their audio is already downloaded to your computer in 
temporary files somewhere, as once a track loads for a few seconds it
then plays without being connected to to the internet. If I figure where
their files are, I will let you know. 

    | When I pull down the only pull down menu I have the following 
    |  choices
    | Wave - tad-in  - aux -  microphone
    | line in -  CD admin -  MIDI
    | CD sig   SPDIF-in

Are we taking here about the Audacity mixer toolbar
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

or Sounds and Audio Devices in Windows Control Panel,  or a special
Control Panel that your soundcard has, or do you have only built-in 
sound? 

What options do you have for  
a ) playback device
b)  recording device   

in Audacity at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab?

    | When I did use your program it was to record radio.. 
    | and that worked fine.. I have not changed my system or 
    | hardware .. same computer... a typical dell 600 hz unit.. 
    | I have version 1.2.3. on my laptop and it has the pull down menu 
    | near the top of my pc.. not the bottom.. as I sent to you.

The mixer toolbar including the dropdown is docked near the top unless 
you float it, and it always starts docked at the top in 1.2.x when you
start the program. 

    | Can you pse give me a link to that 
    | version so I can install it on my desktop at home... that might be the 
    | solution.

You'd be wasting your time, because the options in Audacity's dropdown
are determined by the soundcard drivers, or by which options Windows 
chooses to display. The Wave option you have in the drop down ought 
to be what you want, but may be disfunctional because of driver issues,
or you may have a stereo mix as well which does work, which is not
displaying. Unless you are doing something like choosing the wrong
recording device in Audacity Audio I/O, you must, as I keep telling you,
go into Sounds and Audio Devices, see if any more options can be 
exposed, and try selecting them there instead of Audacity. It is very
common for users to think they are choosing a particular source in 
Audacity's dropdown, but they aren't, because the drivers linking 
Audacity to the source selection are broken.

    | I have chosen stereo mix for the setting at home.. does that give 
    | me a stereo signal that is in the music? Is that the right setting? It 
    | works.

As I have said in previous messages, the option to record the computer 
output can be called by a number of names. Any such option should 
give you a stereo recording if the sound is stereo, unless it is a specific
sound device option to record the computer output in mono. If a sound 
device offers both "stereo mix" and "wave" (as some do), this usually 
means that either will record one sound being simply played like an 
internet broadcast, but only "stereo mix" will record two sources at once
(e.g. line-in and internet simultaneously), or a sound that is being
sent from the input to the output (e.g. a microphone being played back).


Gale Andrews



  



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/28/2006 5:09:21 AM

Hello,
I use Audacity occasionally with wildlife recordings. I have looked  
thorough the FAQs etc and have not seen my question addressed, so I  
hope you can help. I'm on a Mac G5 with 10.4.7 using the latest  
version of Audacity. After I have used Audacity and have quit the  
program I note my computer has no sound. I can simply go to System  
Prefs and to Sound and I see that Audacity apparently changes the  
sound output device from "line out" to "imic usb audio system". I can  
switch this back and get sound back on my machine, but I am wondering  
if this is normal. Any thoughts on the matter will be appreciated.

Greg Lasley
Austin, Texas

| From Greg Lasley <glasley@...> 
    | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:03:46 -0500
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I use Audacity occasionally with wildlife recordings. I have looked  
    | thorough the FAQs etc and have not seen my question addressed, so I  
    | hope you can help. I'm on a Mac G5 with 10.4.7 using the latest  
    | version of Audacity. After I have used Audacity and have quit the  
    | program I note my computer has no sound. I can simply go to System  
    | Prefs and to Sound and I see that Audacity apparently changes the  
    | sound output device from "line out" to "imic usb audio system". I can  
    | switch this back and get sound back on my machine, but I am wondering  
    | if this is normal. Any thoughts on the matter will be appreciated.

I'm not sure if this is an iMic problem, or an old problem with Audacity
changing sound settings when it starts, which OS X is then not able
to reset because of the global way it handles sound. Do I presume when 
you use Audacity that at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab you have the
iMic set as the playback device? You don't want to do that unless you have
speakers in the iMic out port and want to use that for sound playback.

Try installing this preview release of Audacity 1.2.5 and see if it helps. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity-macosx-1.2.5pre1.dmg

After starting Audacity turn on the new option 

"Do not modify audio device settings (such as sample rate)"

at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab. Set the playback device to 
inbuilt sound on the same tab. Then in Preferences > Quality tab, set 
Default Sample Rate to 44 100 Hz or 48 000 Hz and the Default Sample 
Format to 16 bit. Set the Project Rate button bottom left of Audacity
to the same value as the Default Sample Rate setting. Close Audacity 
then change sound settings in Apple Sound and Midi Setup to the
same settings as Audacity (i.e. 44 100 or 48 000 Hz, 16 bit).  

Write back if you still have problems after doing this. 
 
Gale Andrews 



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 9/29/2006 8:02:16 PM

HI Gale,

Well, I am not very experienced at this, and now I have really messed  
it all up. I deleted the whole earlier program including prefs from  
my machine and downloaded the version you suggested. I made the  
changes you suggested. Now, however, when I play a cassette on a  
recorder hooked up through a mic (usb) line from the earphone jack I  
cannot get Audacity to play or recognoze the sound. The bar graph  
goes along fine, but no sound is recorded. I know I have something  
set wrong, but I've been sitting here playing with it for a while and  
cannot seem to figure it out. I know that a couple of years ago I had  
a similar problem when I tried to use it, then somehow I got it up  
and running and it has worked ever since except for the part about it  
chnaging my sound output in System Prefs. Now, for whatever reason,  
it won't recrd at all.
Oh well..it is my fault. I hope I eventually figure it out. Thanks.
Greg


On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:02 PM, gale@... wrote:

>
>     | From Greg Lasley <glasley@...>
>     | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:03:46 -0500
>     | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>     | I use Audacity occasionally with wildlife recordings. I have  
> looked
>     | thorough the FAQs etc and have not seen my question  
> addressed, so I
>     | hope you can help. I'm on a Mac G5 with 10.4.7 using the latest
>     | version of Audacity. After I have used Audacity and have quit  
> the
>     | program I note my computer has no sound. I can simply go to  
> System
>     | Prefs and to Sound and I see that Audacity apparently changes  
> the
>     | sound output device from "line out" to "imic usb audio  
> system". I can
>     | switch this back and get sound back on my machine, but I am  
> wondering
>     | if this is normal. Any thoughts on the matter will be  
> appreciated.
>
> I'm not sure if this is an iMic problem, or an old problem with  
> Audacity
> changing sound settings when it starts, which OS X is then not able
> to reset because of the global way it handles sound. Do I presume when
> you use Audacity that at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab you  
> have the
> iMic set as the playback device? You don't want to do that unless  
> you have
> speakers in the iMic out port and want to use that for sound playback.
>
> Try installing this preview release of Audacity 1.2.5 and see if it  
> helps. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity- 
> macosx-1.2.5pre1.dmg
>
> After starting Audacity turn on the new option
>
> "Do not modify audio device settings (such as sample rate)"
>
> at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab. Set the playback device to
> inbuilt sound on the same tab. Then in Preferences > Quality tab, set
> Default Sample Rate to 44 100 Hz or 48 000 Hz and the Default Sample
> Format to 16 bit. Set the Project Rate button bottom left of Audacity
> to the same value as the Default Sample Rate setting. Close Audacity
> then change sound settings in Apple Sound and Midi Setup to the
> same settings as Audacity (i.e. 44 100 or 48 000 Hz, 16 bit).
>
> Write back if you still have problems after doing this.
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 9/29/2006 8:02:16 PM
>
>
>

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:27 -0500, Greg Lasley wrote:
> Well, I am not very experienced at this, and now I have really messed  
> it all up. I deleted the whole earlier program including prefs from  
> my machine and downloaded the version you suggested. I made the  
> changes you suggested. Now, however, when I play a cassette on a  
> recorder hooked up through a mic (usb) line from the earphone jack I  
> cannot get Audacity to play or recognoze the sound. The bar graph  
> goes along fine, but no sound is recorded.
If you have set audacity to not modify the system settings, you need to
ensure that the system settings are correct for recording. This will
mean setting the system default sound source to be the iMic, so that
when audacity records, it does so from the iMic not the built-in audio.

Richard Ash

> On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:02 PM, gale@... wrote:
> 
> >
> >     | From Greg Lasley <glasley@...>
> >     | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:03:46 -0500
> >     | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
> >     | I use Audacity occasionally with wildlife recordings. I have  
> > looked
> >     | thorough the FAQs etc and have not seen my question  
> > addressed, so I
> >     | hope you can help. I'm on a Mac G5 with 10.4.7 using the latest
> >     | version of Audacity. After I have used Audacity and have quit  
> > the
> >     | program I note my computer has no sound. I can simply go to  
> > System
> >     | Prefs and to Sound and I see that Audacity apparently changes  
> > the
> >     | sound output device from "line out" to "imic usb audio  
> > system". I can
> >     | switch this back and get sound back on my machine, but I am  
> > wondering
> >     | if this is normal. Any thoughts on the matter will be  
> > appreciated.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is an iMic problem, or an old problem with  
> > Audacity
> > changing sound settings when it starts, which OS X is then not able
> > to reset because of the global way it handles sound. Do I presume when
> > you use Audacity that at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab you  
> > have the
> > iMic set as the playback device? You don't want to do that unless  
> > you have
> > speakers in the iMic out port and want to use that for sound playback.
> >
> > Try installing this preview release of Audacity 1.2.5 and see if it  
> > helps. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity- 
> > macosx-1.2.5pre1.dmg
> >
> > After starting Audacity turn on the new option
> >
> > "Do not modify audio device settings (such as sample rate)"
> >
> > at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab. Set the playback device to
> > inbuilt sound on the same tab. Then in Preferences > Quality tab, set
> > Default Sample Rate to 44 100 Hz or 48 000 Hz and the Default Sample
> > Format to 16 bit. Set the Project Rate button bottom left of Audacity
> > to the same value as the Default Sample Rate setting. Close Audacity
> > then change sound settings in Apple Sound and Midi Setup to the
> > same settings as Audacity (i.e. 44 100 or 48 000 Hz, 16 bit).
> >
> > Write back if you still have problems after doing this.
> >
> > Gale Andrews
> >
> >
> >
> > Outbound message virus free.
> > Tested on: 9/29/2006 8:02:16 PM
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV

Hi Gale.
Thank you for your  input. It was a littlebit hard to explain what I  
want to do. The thing is, I study Chinese and that language uses four  
different tones. I.e for instance the word "shi" can mean:  to be,  
10,  master,  event and about ten other things depending witch tone  
you use and in what context it apears.
I just want to compare the correct pronounciation witch I import from  
a CD with my pronounciation. It would be a great help   if I could I  
could compare the versions visually. Maybe in an overlay with  
different coulors or something.

Thanks again for your time and thought
Jan Isaksson
25 sep 2006 kl. 22.00 skrev gale@...:

>
>     | From Richard Ash <richard@...>
>     | Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:47:40 +0100
>     | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>     | On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:26 +0200, Katarina Fornell wrote:
>     | > I heard rumors that you are developing a function where you  
> can
>     | > compare your own recordings visualy with original recordings.
>     | > If so, when is it due?
>     | We have nothing currently under development in this area.
>     | If you mean being able to display the waveform of both  
> recordings, you
>     | can do this in any version of audacity by simply importing  
> both files
>     | into the same project using Project > Import Audio.
>
> I don't think we really know what you want to do. If you have in mind
> to record your own version of some artist's vocal, then you cannot
> usefully compare it with the original (e.g. on an imported MP3 file)
> because you won't have access to the vocal track on its own which is
> mixed into the MP3. It's not generally possible to isolate the  
> vocal out of
> a file that is a mix of vocal and backing track, so you wouldn't be
> comparing tracks that were remotely similar.
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 9/25/2006 9:00:57 PM
>
>
>

Hi Richard
Thank you for your time.
I will try that.
Jan Isaksson
25 sep 2006 kl. 20.47 skrev Richard Ash:

> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:26 +0200, Katarina Fornell wrote:
>> I heard rumors that you are developing a function where you can
>> compare your own recordings visualy with original recordings.
>> If so, when is it due?
>
> We have nothing currently under development in this area.
>
> If you mean being able to display the waveform of both recordings, you
> can do this in any version of audacity by simply importing both files
> into the same project using Project > Import Audio.
>
> Richard Ash
>

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Hi</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>I have a Dell PC and I dont know where to plug in the mic on my computer.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>please email me <A href="mailto:pamelakorenn@...>
<DIV class=RTE>thanks</DIV></DIV></div></html>

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:35:26 -0500
"Pamela Lenny" <pamelakorenn@...> wrote:
> I have a Dell PC and I dont know where to plug in the mic on my computer.
 
It's always sensible to look at your computer and microphone manuals in 
these cases. If it's a dynamic microphone it should go in the microphone port
and if it's  a condenser microphone, it needs (unless it has battery power)
to be connected to either a pre-amplifier or a mixer. The pre-amplifier or
mixer then connects to your computer's line-in. 

At Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O you select your inbuilt sound as both 
playback and recording devices and on the mixer toolbar dropdown selector
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm  

you select microphone as the recording source if your microphone is 
connected to the computer's microphone port, and line-in if it's connected
to a mixer or pre-amplifier. If you are on OS X you have to select this 
recording source in Apple Audio-Midi Setup instead.

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system
you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4) and what version of Audacity
you are using (see Help > About in the program). 

Gale Andrews

I just downloaded and installed audacity. I imported a music file from my 
music library and I can see the song in the bar in waves. However, when I 
hit play, the speed is really fast and I can't hear anything other than a 
high pitched noise before the song is done. How can I lower the speed back 
to normal?

| From Jenny S 
    | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:01:05 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I just downloaded and installed audacity. I imported a music 
    | file from my  music library and I can see the song in the bar
    |  in waves. However, when I  hit play, the speed is really fast 
    | and I can't hear anything other than a  high pitched noise 
    | before the song is done.  

Assuming the waveform shows and sounds no longer than a 
fraction of a second, then the file you tried to import appears not 
to be in a format Audacity supports. Your file could be in a 
proprietary format like Real or .WMA which we cannot support , 
or it could be a file you purchased - for example, files purchased 
from iTunes are encrypted .M4P format files which are designed so 
they cannot be opened except in specific players). Or your file could
be in a supported format but non-standard in some way.

Audacity only imports files of type .WAV, .AIFF, .OGG and .MP3 
(plus unencrypted QuickTime-based audio such as .MOV and .M4A 
if you are on OS X and have our Beta program 1.3.0). You can check 
the format your file is in by looking in your file manager or media 
player for the three digits after the filename and the dot. If you have 
iTunes or Windows Media Player for example, you can right-click the 
file in their Library and click on either Get Info or Properties respectively
to access file information. 

I have given you a list of three free methods you can use for getting 
this file into Audacity, involving either converting it to a WAV or AIFF
file (which you can then import into Audacity), or recording it into
Audacity. If you know the file is purchased or otherwise protected by
the application that created it, use methods 1 (burning a CD), 
2 (recording) or 3a (remove the encryption). If you know the file 
isn't encrypted, or you don't know if it's encrypted or not, then try 
3b first (convert the file directly to WAV or AIFF).  


1  BURN TO CD 

You can burn the file to an audio CD and rip it back to WAV or
AIFF with CD extraction software freely available on the internet
like iTunes, or CD-EX for Windows 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

then import the WAV or AIFF to Audacity. This method works with 
all files even if they are encrypted (though obviously you can't 
burn an iTunes encrypted file to CD using iTunes: you would have 
to use a general burning program like Nero).   


2 RECORD THE FILE 

You can play the file on your computer and record it into Audacity 
(Windows/Linux) ; or on OS X use a third party program like Audio
Hijack or Wiretap* to record it and save it to AIFF. See
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=streaming

* Note: turn off compression in Wiretap preferences to avoid problems
importing into Audacity.  

Again, this works for all files. The downside is that you have to do this 
in real time (so it's slow if you have a lot of files), and unlike the other
two methods, you do not get an exact digital copy.   


3 CONVERT THE FILE DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER FORMAT

a) Purchased (DRM encrypted) files 

There are only a few cases where you can convert encrypted files 
directly.
 
Roxio Toast will let you convert protected .M4P/.AAC into AIFF without 
burning. Just drag the file into an audio playlist and export or save as...

A cross-platform program is available which removes iTunes encryption 
from purchased .M4P files and converts them to .M4A from which 
conversion to .WAV or .AIFF in iTunes can then be done (see section 3b 
below):
http://www.hymn-project.org/

NOTE: jHymn does not work for iTunes 6 or later

There is also a FairUse4WM program 
http://s9.quicksharing.com/d/9438118/1159657105/FU4WMver13.zip

that can strip the encryption from protected .WMA files for which you
have a valid key. This leaves you with an unencrypted .WMA file which 
you can then convert to WAV or AIFF (see section 3b below).      

Otherwise, you have to use methods 1) and 2) above for encrypted files. 


b) Other (unprotected) files   

You can use a number of standalone audio file conversion programs to
convert unprotected files directly to .WAV or .AIFF :

dBpoweramp, for Windows and Linux (under Wine) including integration  
into Windows Explorer (free except for conversion to MP3)
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

SuperPlayer,  for Windows: (just drag the file you want to convert 
into the program)  
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload	

ffmpegX  , for OS X : (just drag the file you want to convert into
the program) 
http://www.ffmpegx.com/

mplayer (command line program on Windows or Linux):
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

Or if you have an up to date version of iTunes you can use that to 
convert the file to .WAV or .AIFF (but only the Windows version of 
iTunes can convert .WMA files). You set the conversion format in 
iTunes at Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing > Import 
using .WAV or .AIFF encoder. Then you have a right-click option to 
convert the file.
 
If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system 
you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4) and what version of Audacity 
you are using (see Help > About in the program). 

Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 10/18/2006 6:27:16 AM

Good morning-
I've looked on the faq section of the forums, but
can't seem to find the answer. This is very basic and
I'm sure I'm just overlooking the obvious. However,
how to I import two songs end to end? I can't even
find instructions anywhere that tells me how to do
this.
Thank you,
Debbie Brown

Debbie Brown Photography
916-645-3356
 http://www.debbiebrownphoto.com CHECK OUT MY NEW AND IMPROVED SITE!!!!!
BLOG site is http://www.debbiebrownphoto.blogspot.com

 http://www.debbiebrownphoto.photoreflect.com 
(This is an additional website I use to post your wedding photos as well as sample photos. When you enter the site, please type the word "samples" in the "customer or event" field. That will take you to a couple of links where you can see complete wedding albums.)

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com

| From Debbie Brown 
    | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | Good morning-
    | I've looked on the faq section of the forums, but
    | can't seem to find the answer. This is very basic and
    | I'm sure I'm just overlooking the obvious. However,
    | how to I import two songs end to end? I can't even
    | find instructions anywhere that tells me how to do
    | this.

You cannot import different audio files end to end. You can use
Project > Import Audio and shift-select the two files you want to 
import. They will then import at the same time onto two separate 
tracks. You can join them by cut and paste as mentioned in the 
FAQ
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=editing&i=join

Or use the time shift  tool <---> at top left to move each track along 
to the place you want it on the timeline (which is above the first track).
So if your first track ended at 3 minutes, you could move the second track
underneath to right so that it started at say 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
When you export the tracks they will be mixed to one track lasting
6 minutes and 5 seconds in the resultant audio file. 

Gale Andrews 


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 10/18/2006 5:10:48 PM

Hi

How do I know which to install - 1.2.4b  or the 1.3.0 one?

Thanks

Helen

| From Helen Sargent 
    | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:43:31 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | How do I know which to install - 1.2.4b  or the 1.3.0 one?

The Beta program 1.3.0b contains new and sometimes unfinished or not 
fully tested features and may not be as stable as the released version 
(currently 1.2.4). The Beta is intended mainly for users who are 
already experienced with Audacity who want to try the new features 
and can give us feedback on how they work. You are still welcome to 
try the Beta as a new user if you wish and you can also install both 
the Beta and 1.2.4 on your machine if you install them to different 
directories. 

Note that currently the Beta cannot open projects created by 
Audacity 1.0 to 1.2.x and vice-versa. 

Also note if you are on OS X that you need 10.3 or later to run
the 1.3.0b whereas OS X 10.1 is sufficient for 1.2.4b. The Windows
requirements for 1.2.4b and 1.3.0b are the same i.e. Windows 98 
or later. 

You can read about the new features in the Beta which are not in 
1.2.4 here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/features-1.3-a


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 10/18/2006 11:56:31 PM

Hello,
i love audacity but when i record a second track, it's not synchronise =
with the first. Thre's the question in the FAQ but not  the answer. =
Thanks a lot for all your job
Lilian

| From Lilian Raynaud 
    | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:09:23 +0200
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | i love audacity but when i record a second track, it's not synchronise
    |  with the first. Thre's the question in the FAQ but not  the answer.

Sorry we know the French translation of that FAQ is missing and we will 
try and fix it.  The English version of the FAQ and translations into
other languages are OK.

Anyway to give you an answer, this problem is inevitable in any 
consumer-level computer and audio setup, i.e. there will always be a
delay between singing, speaking or hitting a note and that sound being
laid down in the recording. Using ASIO drivers dramatically reduces 
this delay but at present Audacity cannot support ASIO due to licensing
issues. Instead, Audacity will try to correct for this latency by pushing
the recorded track backwards slightly after recording (notice the white 
arrows that appear at the left of the recorded track). If the adjustment
is not enough, you can use the Time Shift Tool <---> top left to drag the
recorded track further left to its correct position.    

Gale Andrews

 




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 10/24/2006 11:22:07 PM

How do you record a voiceover through a microphone and add background =
music to a single file?

| From MSJWC 
    | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:46:08 -0500
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | How do you record a voiceover through a microphone and add
    | background music to a single file?

In Audacity, click Project > Import Audio and import the file you want to 
modify and/or the music track you want as your background (e.g. an MP3 
or WAV file). Note you cannot import a CD track into Audacity, so first of 
all you have to extract the CD audio to a WAV or AIFF file, then import
that into Audacity. To extract CD audio, you can use iTunes or a Windows
program like CD-EX
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

Once your file is imported, enable "Play other tracks while recording new
one" at Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab. This will enable you to listen 
to the imported track while you are recording your vocal, as soon as you
press the red "Record" button. Your voice recording will appear on a new
separate track and so it can be edited independently from the music track. 
 
If you want to monitor your voiceover (listen to it while you are recording
it), then on Windows or Linux: open the system volume control panel and 
unmute and turn up the playback volume for your microphone. If you are 
on OS X, use the "hardware playthrough" option on the Audio I/O tab 
instead. If this does not work, use the "Software Playthrough" option on 
the same Audio I/O tab. This works on all operating systems, though there
is inevitably some delay in hearing the sound with this playthrough method.  

If you are on Windows or Linux, double-check your recording source is set
to microphone in Audacity's mixer toolbar dropdown selector
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

It's a common error when recording voiceovers to set your recording 
source in the dropdown selector to "stereo mix" or comparable option for
recording what the computer is playing. You don't want to do this as you
will record the imported track as well as your vocal. 

Always use headphones when recording your voiceover, even if you are 
not monitoring the recording. If you don't, the microphone may pick up 
the playback of the imported track in your recording. 

Note that due to inevitable latency in consumer-level computer audio 
setups, there will be a delay between singing or speaking into the 
microphone and that sound being laid down in the recording. Audacity 
will try to correct for this by pushing the recorded track backwards 
slightly after recording, but you can always adjust the synchronisation of
the recorded track and the CD track by using the Time Shift Tool <---> 
top left to drag the recorded track left or right to its correct position.    


Gale Andrews

 




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 10/26/2006 11:34:14 PM

Hello
 
Thank you for a great program, and for your excellent support and help when  
I have needed it!
 
I am recording for radio, CDs, and web downloads, and would like to create  
more of a sense of "presence" for my voice--I think that's the right word. When 
 I listen to my results in comparison to other recordings, mine sound 
slightly  more muffled.
 
Currently, I am recording with a Shure lavalier mic into an MAudio pre-amp  
into my laptop. When I edit the recording, my usual process is to use the  
Compressor, then the High Pass Filter, Bass Boost 200hz, Amplify, then Bass  Boost 
100hz. This is producing an acceptable result, and I have not received any  
negative feedback. The radio station is playing my recordings with no  
complaints. However, I can tell that a greater sense of presence would enhance  the 
outcome. A friend of mine has the top of the line ProTools equipment in his  
professional studio, and he can create a sense of presence (not surprisingly)  
that I cannot.
 
What do you suggest?
 
Thanks,  

Bill

William G. DeFoore, Ph.D.
Institute for  Personal and Professional Development
14765 Midway Road, Suite  116
Addison, TX 75001
Ph: 214-764-7930
Fx: 214-764-7931
Email:  Bd4home@...
Web: http://www.defoore.com

| From Bd4home 
    | Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:07:38 EST
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am recording for radio, CDs, and web downloads, and 
    | would like to create  
    | more of a sense of "presence" for my voice--I think that's the right
    | word. When I listen to my results in comparison to other recordings,
    | mine sound slightly  more muffled.
    |  
    | Currently, I am recording with a Shure lavalier mic into an MAudio
    | pre-amp  into my laptop. When I edit the recording, my usual process 
    | is to use the Compressor, then the High Pass Filter, Bass Boost 200hz,
    | Amplify, then Bass  Boost 100hz. This is producing an acceptable result,
    | and I have not received any  negative feedback. However, I can tell 
    | that a greater sense of presence would enhance  the 
    | outcome. A friend of mine has the top of the line ProTools equipment in
    | his professional studio, and he can create a sense of presence (not
    | surprisingly)   that I cannot.

I would tend to put much of it down to the microphone, these are only 
small microphones and can easily be muffled by clothes, hair etc.
depending on how you are wearing them. Do you need a lavalier 
microphone because you are recording on the road? Does yours have a 
push-on grille which can give a high frequency boost by providing a 
resonant cavity for the sound to expand into, so counteracting the
muffling effect? 

Have you listened to how your voice sounds at each stage of the editing,
before applying each effect? Applying a second Bass Boost at the end after
Amplify is a mistake, as if you are using Amplify's default behaviour of 
amplifying to the maximum level without distortion (-0 db), applying a 
Bass Boost afterwards will then necessarily amplify over the distortion
level. You can verify this by enabling the Meter Toolbar
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm

at Edit > Preferences > Interface and seeing that playing the track after 
the second Bass Boost will bring the red hold lights on the green VU
meters, indicating distortion. 

I am not sure why you are applying a High Pass Filter to suppress the 
lower frequencies and then counteracting this by boosting the bass. 
I suspect you will get a better result using the FFT filter to play with 
different equalisations and (providing the sound is not already on the 
the thin or tinny side), think of boosting parts of the treble and parts
of the bass while slightly reducing or leaving alone the middle 
frequencies. 

I think you should also consider adding some mild reverberation with 
GVerb (it should be under the divider in the Effect menu).

GVerb is not easy to handle but there are some tips here on using it that
may help  
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=GVerbSettings

In addition to that page, some users have said these GVerb settings 
give a bright moderately open sound

Room Size: 50
Reverb Time: 1.5
Damping: 0.1
Input Bandwidth: 0.75
Dry Signal Level: -1.5
Early Reflections: -10
Tail Level: -20


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 10/30/2006 8:05:28 AM

how to record from the turntable to a cd using the softwarenor audacity

how do I BURN A CD FROM AN LP TRUNTABLE RECORD TO A BLANK CD
IN THE COMPUTER

| From Murray Metelitz 
    | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:24:01 -0500
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    |  how do I BURN A CD FROM AN LP TRUNTABLE RECORD TO A BLANK CD
    | IN THE COMPUTER

Please do not send multiple messages on the same subject seven minutes 
apart. This is free software supported entirely by volunteers. Normal 
technical support response times even for commercial programs are 
24 - 72 hours.  

The essence of what you are asking is already covered by two Frequently
Asked Questions i.e.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=records-tapes
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd

However I have also pasted in underneath this message a more detailed 
step by step instruction which should help you with the tasks involved,
which are a) to record your LP into Audacity, b) export the recording to a
WAV audio file, and c) burn that WAV file to an audio CD. 

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system 
you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4) and what version of Audacity 
you are using (see Help > About in the program). 

Gale Andrews



***************************************************************

1  The record player has to be connected from an "out" port   
    on the attached amplifier (usually the headphones port) 
    to the line-in port of the computer (normally coloured blue, 
    but check your computer manual). See:
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=records-tapes

2  Click Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab and set both the playback
    and recording devices explicitly to your inbuilt sound or the sound 
    device you want to use. Do not select "Microsoft SoundMapper" on 
    Windows machines.   

3  Select line-in as the recording source on Audacity's mixer 
    toolbar dropdown input selector
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

NOTE 1:  No Line-in port?

Some MACs or notebook/laptop computers do not have a line-in port. 
In that case check if your microphone port can be toggled to line-in with
a switch, or by changing the recording source in the software. Sometimes 
this line-level source is called "mix" or "stereo mix", in which case you 
could select this source in the system sound preferences (or on Windows 
and Linux you can also do so in Audacity's dropdown input selector as
above). If you see a line-in option available, always choose that as your 
recording source. If you have neither a line-in port nor any way to switch 
the microphone port to line-in, you need to add a line-in by adding a 
USB soundcard, or other audio input/output device that connects to the 
computer via USB, like a Griffin iMic 
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/

NOTE 2: If you are on OS X:

If you are on OS X, the mixer toolbar will be greyed out on "default 
source". This is normal, but you need to go to Apple Audio-Midi Setup
and make line-in to be the "default source"

4  If you want to record in stereo, change the recording channels on 
    the same Audio I/O tab to "2 (stereo)". 

5  Next, set the volume level of your recording input. Right-click on 
    the downward pointing arrow in the right hand (red) recording 
    level meters
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_meter.htm

    and click "monitor input". While playing a loud part of your record, 
    adjust the recording level slider on the mixer toolbar so the 
    recording meters are almost reaching the far right hand side (but not 
    far enough to bring the red hold lights on). If the recording level 
    meters are not visible, click Edit > Preferences >  Interface > Enable 
    Meter Toolbar.

6  Decide if you want to "monitor" your recording, that is, hear it
    played back as you make it. If you do, and you are on Windows or 
    Linux, open the system sound mixer e.g. Sounds and Audio devices
    in the Windows control panel, and unmute line-in as a playback device, 
    and turn the volume up. If you are on OS X, simply go back to the 
    Audacity Audio I/O tab and enable "hardware playthrough". If this 
    does not work, or if the playback and recording devices on Audio I/O 
    tab are different, choose "software playthrough" on the same Audio 
    I/O tab, which works on all operating systems. Note there will always
    be a delay in hearing the playthrough with this method.

7  Create a new Project by clicking File > Save Project As.  Start your 
    recording by pressing the red record button. You can pause and 
    restart the recording between tracks or sides with the blue pause 
    button, which keeps your recording on one track within Audacity. 
    If you want to start new tracks or sides of the record on a new 
    track in Audacity, press the yellow stop button, then the red record
    button to restart recording on a new track.

8  When you have finished recording, press the yellow stop button and 
    save your recording into the Project you started (File > Save Project).
    Now the data is safe, you can edit it in Audacity if you want to 
    (e.g. cut pieces out), or come back to it later by re-opening the saved 
    Project file (File > Open). See here for explanations of basic editing 
    processes
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner2.html
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner3.htmli 
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_ed_beginner4.html

9  When you are happy with the recording, you need to export it as a  
    .WAV or .AIFF audio file (File > Export as WAV or ... as AIFF) and burn 
    that file to an audio CD. See: 
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd

10  If your Audacity recording contains multiple tracks or songs which 
     you'd like to burn as individual CD tracks, you must export individual 
     audio files corresponding to the tracks on your record, and then burn 
     all those files as separate CD tracks. You can divide the recorded track 
     up for exporting as separate files by clicking in the track at each point
     where you want to divide the track, then click Project > "Add Label at 
     Selection". This places labels in a new Label Track at your split points.
     If you then use the File > Export Multiple command, this will export
     multiple files at one go with different file names based on those split 
     points - see: 
     http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 11/1/2006 12:50:12 AM

can the audacity download help me to program a cd of music?
for instance, i would like each song to be only 3mins. with a fade and=20
have 30 sec. in between each song

thank you!  i saw your add on kim  komando site!=20
kim k

| From kemerercycle 
    | Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:06:27 -0500
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | can the audacity download help me to program a cd of music?
    | for instance, i would like each song to be only 3mins. with a fade and 
    | have 30 sec. in between each song

If you mean you want to burn a CD from pre-existing audio files like MP3
or WAV which you have on your hard drive, then yes , Audacity can help 
you edit those files by adding a fade-in or fade-out or silences between
the songs. But Audacity is not a CD burning program, so you still have to
export the files as WAV or AIFF format from Audacity after editing and
then use another program to burn them to CD.

If fades were the only edits you want, you might be able to simply use
your burning program to perform those fade edits on the file prior to
burning it to CD. Nero for example would be able to add fades. Also 
most burning programs will be able to add gaps of 2 to 5 seconds 
between the CD tracks. But if you want 30 second gaps, you will have 
to use an audio editor like Audacity to physically add silences at the 
end of each track.   

If you are asking can you edit CDs directly, the answer is no. You have to 
first extract the tracks to a WAV or AIFF file using CD extraction software,
import that WAV or AIFF into an audio editor like Audacity, export the
edited file to WAV or AIFF, and reburn the CD. 

Recommendable free CD extraction programs for Windows include:
CD-EX 
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/cdex/en/install/cdex_151.exe

Exact Audio Copy
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

or if you are on OS X, you can use iTunes to extract the CD audio. First
set the "conversion format" in iTunes at Edit > Preferences > Advanced >
Importing: Import using AIFF encoder. Under that, choose the "automatic"
setting. Then insert your CD in the computer and click "Audio CD" on the
"Source" pane on the left. Select the tracks you want to extract and
right-click on them and click the option "convert selection to AIFF".      

Do you want to play your CD only in your computer, or in a standalone 
CD player as well?  If you play the CD in your computer you can 
(depending on the player application you use) set it to play with fades,
only the first 3 minutes of a song, and/or have predetermined gaps 
between tracks (but again not all players will allow an option to have a 
gap as long as 30 seconds). Note this is not editing the CD, just altering
its playback using digital signal processing. 

If you need more help, please tell us what operating system you are
on e.g. OS X 10.4 or Windows XP.  


Gale Andrews
 



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 11/2/2006 12:18:39 AM

thank you so much for replying so fast!!!

yes i have windows xp, so i have the windows media player to burn cd's with
i just didn't know it could limit the songs timing and the 30 sec. in 
between.
i'm not sure what WAV or AIFF  is.

yes the music would already be on my computer.
the cd would be played on a another source like a boom box once burned.

thanks again!!! so hard to find any help with these questions!!
kim



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <audacity-help@...>
To: "kemerercycle" <kemerer@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From kemerercycle
>    | Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:06:27 -0500
>    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>    | can the audacity download help me to program a cd of music?
>    | for instance, i would like each song to be only 3mins. with a fade 
> and
>    | have 30 sec. in between each song
>
> If you mean you want to burn a CD from pre-existing audio files like MP3
> or WAV which you have on your hard drive, then yes , Audacity can help
> you edit those files by adding a fade-in or fade-out or silences between
> the songs. But Audacity is not a CD burning program, so you still have to
> export the files as WAV or AIFF format from Audacity after editing and
> then use another program to burn them to CD.
>
> If fades were the only edits you want, you might be able to simply use
> your burning program to perform those fade edits on the file prior to
> burning it to CD. Nero for example would be able to add fades. Also
> most burning programs will be able to add gaps of 2 to 5 seconds
> between the CD tracks. But if you want 30 second gaps, you will have
> to use an audio editor like Audacity to physically add silences at the
> end of each track.
>
> If you are asking can you edit CDs directly, the answer is no. You have to
> first extract the tracks to a WAV or AIFF file using CD extraction 
> software,
> import that WAV or AIFF into an audio editor like Audacity, export the
> edited file to WAV or AIFF, and reburn the CD.
>
> Recommendable free CD extraction programs for Windows include:
> CD-EX
> http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/cdex/en/install/cdex_151.exe
>
> Exact Audio Copy
> http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
>
> or if you are on OS X, you can use iTunes to extract the CD audio. First
> set the "conversion format" in iTunes at Edit > Preferences > Advanced >
> Importing: Import using AIFF encoder. Under that, choose the "automatic"
> setting. Then insert your CD in the computer and click "Audio CD" on the
> "Source" pane on the left. Select the tracks you want to extract and
> right-click on them and click the option "convert selection to AIFF".
>
> Do you want to play your CD only in your computer, or in a standalone
> CD player as well?  If you play the CD in your computer you can
> (depending on the player application you use) set it to play with fades,
> only the first 3 minutes of a song, and/or have predetermined gaps
> between tracks (but again not all players will allow an option to have a
> gap as long as 30 seconds). Note this is not editing the CD, just altering
> its playback using digital signal processing.
>
> If you need more help, please tell us what operating system you are
> on e.g. OS X 10.4 or Windows XP.
>
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 11/2/2006 12:18:39 AM
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 
> 10/27/2006
>
>

| From kemerercycle 
    | Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:52:27 -0500
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | yes i have windows xp, so i have the windows media player to burn
    |  cd's with i just didn't know it could limit the songs timing and the 
    | 30 sec. in between.

I did not specifically say Windows Media Player (WMP) can do this, but
that some players can, or could. WMP 10 certainly can't do either but
under View > Enhancements it has a couple of compression presets (that
alter the difference between loud and soft), and to give it credit, an 
extremely natural sounding playback speed slider which changes the 
playback speed while maintaining pitch. iTunes 7 allows you to choose 
a selected part of the song to play each time you play it and if desired 
tries to play a group of songs with no gap between them. It does not 
extend silences at the start and end of tracks, and I do not think it
likely any player will add 30 seconds between songs, so give Audacity 
a try to do these edits. Use Project > Import Audio to import your 
WAV, AIFF, OGG or MP3 file into Audacity for editing.  You select the 
area you want to add a fade to and then Effect > Fade in or > Fade 
Out. To insert a silence, click where you want the inserted silence to
start and Generate > Silence.   

    | i'm not sure what WAV or AIFF  is.
    | yes the music would already be on my computer.
    | the cd would be played on a another source like a boom box 
    | once burned.

WAV or AIFF is the particular type of uncompressed audio file you have
to export from Audacity for burning to your audio CD.  See: 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd
 

Gale Andrews

 



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 11/6/2006 12:51:58 AM

THANK YOU very much!!! i will try audacity!
kim k






----- Original Message ----- 
From: <audacity-help@...>
To: "kemerercycle" <kemerer@...>
Cc: <audacity-help@...>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] question


>
>    | From kemerercycle
>    | Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:52:27 -0500
>    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>    | yes i have windows xp, so i have the windows media player to burn
>    |  cd's with i just didn't know it could limit the songs timing and the
>    | 30 sec. in between.
>
> I did not specifically say Windows Media Player (WMP) can do this, but
> that some players can, or could. WMP 10 certainly can't do either but
> under View > Enhancements it has a couple of compression presets (that
> alter the difference between loud and soft), and to give it credit, an
> extremely natural sounding playback speed slider which changes the
> playback speed while maintaining pitch. iTunes 7 allows you to choose
> a selected part of the song to play each time you play it and if desired
> tries to play a group of songs with no gap between them. It does not
> extend silences at the start and end of tracks, and I do not think it
> likely any player will add 30 seconds between songs, so give Audacity
> a try to do these edits. Use Project > Import Audio to import your
> WAV, AIFF, OGG or MP3 file into Audacity for editing.  You select the
> area you want to add a fade to and then Effect > Fade in or > Fade
> Out. To insert a silence, click where you want the inserted silence to
> start and Generate > Silence.
>
>    | i'm not sure what WAV or AIFF  is.
>    | yes the music would already be on my computer.
>    | the cd would be played on a another source like a boom box
>    | once burned.
>
> WAV or AIFF is the particular type of uncompressed audio file you have
> to export from Audacity for burning to your audio CD.  See:
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd
>
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 11/6/2006 12:51:58 AM
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.27/517 - Release Date: 11/3/2006
>
>

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. 
 
I have recently purchased a small handheld digital voice recorder made by  
Sony.  Included with the product was a digital voice editor software.   I can 
convert the files to various formats and save them on the hard drive of my  
computer.  However, this software does not allow me to edit the raw voice  files.  
It has occurred to me that I would like the option to edit these  files, 
including cutting and pasting segments of voice files that are recorded  at one 
time and that I would prefer to insert into another voice file  tract.
 
Can you tell me, if the basic software product that you have available for  
download will be capable of doing these simple operations.  If so, which  
version of the product do you suggest I download?
 
Thank you for answering my question.

Jeffrey Deitz  M.D.

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:31 -0500, JDeitzMD@... wrote:
> I have recently purchased a small handheld digital voice recorder made
> by Sony.  Included with the product was a digital voice editor
> software.  I can convert the files to various formats and save them on
> the hard drive of my computer.  However, this software does not allow
> me to edit the raw voice files.  It has occurred to me that I would
> like the option to edit these files, including cutting and pasting
> segments of voice files that are recorded at one time and that I would
> prefer to insert into another voice file tract.
>  
> Can you tell me, if the basic software product that you have available
> for download will be capable of doing these simple operations.
Once you have exported the files from your recorder to a standard format
like WAV, AIFF or MP3 then you will be able to load them into audacity
and edit them.

>   If so, which version of the product do you suggest I download?
As you do not need any of the more advanced features available in the
1.3.2 beta (testing) version, I would suggest you download the 1.2.5
stable version. If you have problems with resource usage, then you may
wish to try this test build, which should correct the problem:
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity-win-1.2.5-test2.exe
We will be releasing a version 1.2.6 shortly with the same fixes in it.

Richard Ash

| From JDeitzMD 
    | Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:31:47 EST
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I have recently purchased a small handheld digital voice 
    | recorder made by  Sony.  Included with the product was a digital voice
    | editor software.   I can convert the files to various formats and save
    | them on the hard drive of my computer.  However, this software does 
    | not allow me to edit the raw voice  files.  
    | It has occurred to me that I would like the option to edit these  files,
    | including cutting and pasting segments of voice files that are recorded 
    | at one time and that I would prefer to insert into another voice file 
    | tract.
    | Can you tell me, if the basic software product that you have available
    | for download will be capable of doing these simple operations.  If so,
    | which version of the product do you suggest I download?

You can certainly use Audacity (either the stable 1.2.5 or the more 
advanced Beta 1.3.2, but 1.2.5 should be sufficient for what you want)
to open multiple audio files stored on your drive, cut and paste between
them, and export the results to another audio file. 

It depends what format the files produced by the Sony conversion software
are in, and if they have been properly converted so that Audacity can 
recognised them. Audacity can import standard uncompressed WAV and 
AIFF,  certain types of compressed 4 bit or 8 bit WAV or AIFF files, OGG 
and MP3.  You use the Project > Import Audio command to import these into 
Audacity. The best way is to try Audacity and see. Most commands you would 
use like cutting and pasting are under the Edit menu.

Download the correct Audacity version for your system:

OS X Power PC (1.2.5 with latest bug fixes)
http://audacity.sf.net/files/audacity-macosx-ppc-1.2.6-rc1.dmg

OS X for Intel Macs 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-macosx-intel/audacity-macosx-intel-1.2.5.dmg

Windows 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity-win-1.2.5-test2.exe

If your files do not import properly, try converting them to an uncompressed
WAV or AIFF with Super Player (Windows)
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload

or ffmpegx (OS X)
http://www.ffmpegx.com/


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 11/13/2006 6:14:37 PM

Hello,
I had a trouble trying to reccord using Revalver (software to simulate a
guitar amplifier).
Can I do it?
Thank You
Fernando Dias

| From Fernando Dias=20
    | Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:24:40 -0200
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I had a trouble trying to reccord using Revalver (software to simulat=
e a
    | guitar amplifier).  Can I do it?

=46rom what I can find out, Revalver
http://www.alienconnections.com/products_revalver.htm

operates as either an effect plugin, or a live host which (I presume) modif=
ies
the signal from a live recording, in either case as you say to simulate vin=
tage
guitar amplifiers and accessories. Until two days ago the plugin was Direct=
X=20
only (which plugin format Audacity doesn't support), but a VST or Audio Uni=
ts
(AU) version has been released only two days ago:
http://mirror1.alienconnections.com/mirror/0001/downloads/binaries/revalver=
mkii_061216.zip

In principle you should be able to use the VST/AU version in Audacity by
installing the plugin files into the relevant folder. For example to use as=
 a
VST effect plugin you'd install the Audacity VST Enabler along with the plu=
gin=20
files themselves into Audacity's Plug-Ins folder. However due to licensing=
=20
restrictions we only have limited VST support and VST plugins appear with=
=20
only tabular interfaces. With this Revalver plugin, only our recent VST Bri=
dge
Enabler will see it, and applying the effect has no dialogue and merely see=
ms
to cut a small silent notch in the sound.=20

Using the download above on Windows XP SP2, launching the Revalver Live
program and setting the input and output devices it uses to those Audacity =
uses
causes Audacity 1.2.6 to repeatedly crash on load. Since the Revalver Live=
=20
does not seem to be able to capture the audio itself and save it to a file,=
 you'll
probably be advised to use Audacity to record "as is" and seek another plug=
in
(or standalone) to apply simulation effects after recording. Audacity suppo=
rts=20
VST plugins (with the above limitation) on Mac and Windows, and LADSPA=20
plugins on Linux (and also on other operating systems where the plugins hav=
e
been ported to those systems). You can look here=20
http://www.kvraudio.com/allpluginsononepage.php

for an extensive list of plugins. We also have a stomp box filter here whic=
h=20
runs in Audacity on any operating system as a Nyquist Plugin
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/nyquist/mutron.zip

Unzip mutron.ny and place it in your Audacity Plug-ins folder. On Windows
computers, this is usually under "Program Files." On Mac OS X, it is usuall=
y
under "Applications."

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system=20
you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X,
whether it is an Intel Mac or Power PC). Also please tell us what version
of Audacity you are using (see Help > About in the program). If you are=20
managing to run Audacity and a version of the Revalver Live host together
then please also state what version of Revalver you're using and what=20
actions you perform and what problems occur.=20


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 12/17/2006 9:47:36 PM

Hi! I have a question regarding the audacity program.  I am recording my husband's grandparents on CD as a Christmas present.  After I recorded the first one, I went to play it back, and realized that it recorded in 12 second long tracks.  So, I went through and copied and pasted all 140 minutes worth.  Before I do the others, I was wondering if there was any way to change the default track time.  I don't understand a lot of computer lingo, so I didn't get anything from the help section.  I would appreciate it if someone could get back with me soon to let me know if this is possible.  I really do like your program!!  Thank you!!
   
  Sara Cameron
  West Plains, MO 65775

 
---------------------------------
Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

| From Shane Cameron 
    | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:17:54 -0800 (PST)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I have a question regarding the audacity program.  I am recording
    | my husband's grandparents on CD as a Christmas present.  After I 
    | recorded the first one, I went to play it back, and realized that it
    | recorded in 12 second long tracks.  So, I went through and copied
    | and pasted all 140 minutes worth.  Before I do the others, I was
    | wondering if there was any way to change the default track time. 

I am sorry you must have spent hours doing that, but it wasn't necessary
and it was explained in an FAQ:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=data-folder

So, just to be clear, all you have to do before starting a fresh recording is 
save an empty Project with a name of your choice using File > Save
Project As.... and as soon as the recording is over or you reach a place 
to stop, use File > Save Project (not Save Project As... this time). Use 
File > Save Project from time to time to keep your work safe. All this data 
is then stored as small .aup files in a _data folder which has the same 
name as your Project. So if your Project is called "Tuesday" you have your
Project file "Tuesday.aup" and the data in "Tuesday_data" in the same 
directory as the .aup file. Anytime you want to quit Audacity for a break, 
File > Save Project one last time and File > Exit, and when you want to 
reopen the Project next time, open it by opening "Tuesday.aup" with File >      
Open. 

If you want to play your CD on a standalone CD player, note they are 
limited to 74 - 80 minutes playing time each. You may want to have 
different recording sessions (or data meant for different CDs) as different
Projects, though with a fast enough computer with enough memory,
Audacity should be able to hold recordings lasting many hours in a 
single Project. 


Gale Andrews  


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 12/19/2006 7:31:21 AM

Would I be able to edit samples of audio files that I own and save them =
in a format small enough to use as a ringtone for a cellular phone?

Thank you
rebekah

| From Butter-Grathwol, Rebekah 
    | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:04:10 -0600
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | Would I be able to edit samples of audio files that I own and
    | save them in a format small enough to use as a ringtone for a 
    | cellular phone?

You can certainly cut an audio sample to a few seconds in length and 
use it as a ringtone, but only if your mobile 'phone accepts MP3 or WAV 
ringtones. If it accepts WAV files they will probably be low bit rate/low 
sample rate files, so you may have to configure Audacity specially (at 
Edit > Preferences > File Formats: Uncompressed File Format, and in 
the Project rate button bottom left) to export these. So you need to 
look in the 'phone's documentation and see what formats it accepts. 

If it only accepts other formats such as .MMF or .AMR or .MIDI you should 
export your sample as .WAV or .AIFF and use another tool to convert it to 
your required format. I have given examples of such tools underneath this 
message. 


Gale Andrews


Super Player (Windows) (free) 
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload
WAV, MP3 and most formats to AMR 

ffmpegX  (OS X) (free)   
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
WAV, MP3 and most formats to AMR 

mplayer (Linux/Windows) (free, command line tool)
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html
WAV, MP3 and most formats to AMR 

MP3 to Ringtone  (Windows) (free if you do not register)
http://www.qwerks.com/download/8369/mp3trt.exe
MP3 to MMF

Mobile Ringtone Converter (Windows)
http://www.download.com/Mobile-Ringtone-Converter/3000-2140_4-10512792.html
Converts WAV, MP3, OGG, AMR to AMR, MMF, WAV  includes WEB/WAP 
server to transfer ringtones to phone. Does convert 4 seconds and no more 
than 1/3rd of file, for free.  

Midi Music Polyphonic (Windows)
http://www.audioutilities.com/midi-ringtone/midi-ringtone.htm
Converts WAV, MP3, MIDI to MMF 

WaveToMidi (Windows/Linux) (Free with 25 second limit) 
http://harmonicbits.com/en/soundpr/w2m.html
Converts WAV to MIDI

AudiotoMidi (Windows)
http://www.mp3towav.org/TS-AudioToMIDI/
Converts WAV,MP3,CDA to MIDI 

Intelliscore Polyphonic (Windows) 
http://www.intelliscore.net/product.html
Converts MP3, WAV,CDA to MIDI 

Amazing Midi (Windows)  (Free)
http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi/
Converts WAV to MIDI (monophonic output)  

Midisoft 
http://www.widisoft.com/english/mp3-midi-products.html
various MP3 and WAV to MIDI products (Windows and OS X)




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 12/19/2006 4:58:23 PM

I am looking for software that I can take a digital recording and filter  out 
noises so I can hear the conversation clearer. Can you recommend  something

| From Jkemeras 
    | Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:37:23 EST
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am looking for software that I can take a digital recording and
    | filter  out  noises so I can hear the conversation clearer. Can you 
    | recommend  something

Audacity can filter out steady noise like a hum or hiss with Effect >
Noise Removal. It also has Effect > Click Removal which can reduce 
extraneous noises to some extent (though there are limitations, for  
example a chair scrape at the same time and at the same volume as a 
spoken word will be hard to remove without destroying the word).  

Noises that occur between words can be silenced or deleted, or replaced
with ambient noise from the recording so as to sound natural. 
  
If one party in a conversation is much louder than the other this can be 
corrected by reducing the dynamic range of the recording (Effect > 
Leveller or Effect > Compression).

Audacity can be downloaded here for free without any limitation of 
functionality or length of use: 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 12/27/2006 7:15:20 AM

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Hi,</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>I have the audacity program, and i am trying to figure out how you can actually edit a song of a cd. it wont let me open it. could you please help me? thank you.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>&nbsp;</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Give Live Search a try like millions of Australians.  <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENAU/2731??PS=47575" target="_top"> live.com.au</a> </html>

| From Helena K....... 
    | Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:10:38 +0000
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I have the audacity program, and i am trying to figure out how you 
    | can actually edit a song of a cd. it wont let me open it. 

Most operating systems don't actually allow the import of .cda tracks from 
audio CDs into applications, because audio CDs don't have files or a file system
like computer media, but just consist of a stream of bits on the disk. So generally 
speaking, to import tracks from an audio CD, you must first of all extract the 
tracks to a WAV or AIFF audio file using CD extraction software, then you can 
import that WAV or AIFF into Audacity with the usual Project > Import Audio
command. 

The only exception to this is that on OS X, .cda tracks are mounted as AIFF files
in the Finder, and so users may be able to drag AIFF files from there into Audacity
or import them normally from within Audacity. 

For users on Windows we recommend CD-EX as a fully featured CD extraction 
program:
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/cdex/en/install/cdex_151.exe

In the CD-EX window, simply select the CD tracks you want to extract to WAV 
and press F8 or Convert > Extract CD track(s) to WAV. Make sure you know 
where to look for the exported WAV files when you import them into Audacity.
By default CD-EX saves the WAV to one of your Documents and Settings folders
for whatever account you are logged into at the time. If in CD-EX you click 
Options > Settings > Filenames tab and look in the second text box from the top
(probably marked "WAV --> MP3"), you will see the location where it saves its
output files from CD extraction or file conversion. 

You can also extract audio CDs to WAV with Windows Media Player 11 (choose
WAV output at Tools > Options > Rip Music), or to WAV or AIFF with iTunes. 
To do this in iTtunes, set the "conversion format" at Edit > Preferences > 
Advanced > Importing: Import using AIFF encoder (or WAV if preferred). Under 
that, choose the "automatic" setting. Then insert your CD in the computer and 
click "Audio CD" on the "Source" pane on the left. Select the tracks you want to
extract and right-click on them and click the option "convert selection to AIFF"
(or ".. to WAV").      

If you are on Linux or other Unix-like systems you can use K3b for Linux 
http://www.k3b.org/

Grip, for Gnome desktops  
http://www.nostatic.org/grip/

Please take a moment to view our FAQs if you haven't already done so: 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system 
you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X, whether 
it is an Intel Mac or Power PC). Also please tell us what version of Audacity 
you are using (see Help > About in the program). 


Gale Andrews
'


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 12/29/2006 5:50:20 AM

OK, sorry if this is a dumb question. But I am recording with audacity, and I am receiveng a LOT of static... And I dont  know where in terms of fixing the problem. So what I wanted to know is if it is possibly a problem with the software or the hardware?
   
  Thanks, 
   
  Chris

 __________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com

| From BeAt MoB CoNnEcTiOnS 
    | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:23:54 -0800 (PST)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am recording with audacity, and I am receiveng a LOT of static... 
    | And I dont  know where in terms of fixing the problem. So what I
    | wanted to know is if it is possibly a problem with the software or 
    | the hardware?

There is no way that Audacity can add noise to the recording. You need to 
eliminate possibilities such as recording from other sources (e.g. if you are 
recording from a microphone, try recording from a device that has to be 
connected to line-in and see if you still get noise). 

If you are recording from a microphone see if it has an AGC (automatic gain
control) or volume boost that can be turned off,  either on the microphone
itself or in the system recording volume control (e.g. Sounds and Audio
Devices on Windows). Try another microphone or microphone cable. If you 
have audio equipment such as microphones or amplifier close to the computer,
consider moving them apart, altering the grounding so that the PC is not
grounded together with the audio equipment, and use high quality shielded 
audio cable, to prevent extraneous noises from the equipment or the computer
seeping into the recording.    

Make sure you are recording from the correct recording source in the Audacity 
Mixer Toolbar dropdown selector 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

e.g. if you are recording into the microphone port, select microphone in the 
dropdown selector.  If in that situation you were actually selecting stereo mix
(or comparable source for recording the computer output) and thus recording 
not the microphone input but its playback output, and also had other playback 
sources such as line-in unmuted in the system mixer, you would add quite a 
bit of noise to your recording. 

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system you 
are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X, whether it is
an Intel Mac or Power PC). Also please tell us what version of Audacity you 
are using (see Help > About  or Audacity > About in the program) and be 
specific about what source you are recording from and how it is connected to 
the computer.   


Gale Andrews 

  


Gale Andrews



  



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 1/4/2007 6:52:09 AM

| From BeAt MoB CoNnEcTiOnS 
    | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:23:54 -0800 (PST)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am recording with audacity, and I am receiveng a LOT of static... 
    | And I dont  know where in terms of fixing the problem. So what I
    | wanted to know is if it is possibly a problem with the software or 
    | the hardware?

Also I should have mentioned that if noise persists after trying out the 
suggestions I made, especially if you have never recorded before, you should
try updating your sound device drivers to the latest ones for your computer 
model from the manufacturers of the sound device or motherboard. This 
is especially important if you are on Windows as many Windows machines 
ship with low quality generic drivers that won't record properly. On Windows
you can use Device Manager to update your sound device drivers (in the 
"Sound, Video and Game Controllers" section), or you may be able to find 
updated drivers on the manufacturer's website. 


Gale Andrews 




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 1/4/2007 7:09:24 AM

Salve ho appena conosciuto audacity e sono interessato a 
registrare dei dischi direttamente sul pc; nelle 
istruzioni e nelle faq viene detto di collegare  la fonte 
sonora (in questo caso il giradischi)al computer mediante 
un cavo da inserire nel connettore LINE IN del mio 
computer (e di non utilizzare la porta microfono del pc). 
Il problema è che il mio pc non  ha il connettore LINE IN 
ma solo la porta microfono.
Potete aiutarmi?

I'd like to record same records but my pc has only the 
microphone door and not the LINE IN connector; what can i 
do to resolve the problem and be able to record by 
audacity on my computer?
Thanks a lot

Enrico Piacentini
Italy

| From enrico.piacentini 
    | Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:26:02 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I'd like to record same records but my pc has only the 
    | microphone door and not the LINE IN connector; what can i 
    | do to resolve the problem and be able to record by 
    | audacity on my computer?

Thank you for writing in English, in fact we can only reply in English on this
list. If your computer does not have a physical line-in port into which you 
can plug a cable from the phono amplifier, you could check in your computer
manual if your microphone port can be changed to line level. This can be done 
on some laptops either with a switch, or with a recording source option which 
will appear in Audacity's Mixer Toolbar dropdown selector
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

(or on OS X in Apple Audio-Midi Setup). For example on some VAIO laptops this
option is called "stereo mix". This is confusing because many Windows or Linux
computers will have a "stereo mix" option which means something different - 
recording the sounds the computer is playing. But your manual should make it 
clear if you have some way to change the microphone port to line level.   

Otherwise, you can add a line-in by purchasing either an external USB soundcard 
or some other USB audio input/output device like an iMic:
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/

Then when you record from the LP, you will select this USB device as the 
recording device on the Audio I/O tab of Preferences. If you buy an iMic,
Audacity's Mixer Toolbar selector will then grey out, and you simply choose
between line and microphone input with the switch on the iMic.


Gale Andrews






    | Thanks a lot
    | 
    | Enrico Piacentini
    | Italy
    | 
    | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
    | Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
    | opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
    | http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
    | -- 
    | Audacity-help mailing list
    | Audacity-help@...
    | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-help
    | 
    | 
    | 
    | Inbound message virus free.
    | Tested on: 1/13/2007 4:49:04 PM
    | 
    | 




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 1/13/2007 5:34:03 PM

Hello, I recently just downloaded a version of your software.....I wanted to add it to my windows media player music list....But I can't seem to find out how that is done. Is it possible? If so can you tell me how? 
   
  Thank you!
       
   

 
---------------------------------
Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check.
Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta.

| From Shayne P 
    | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:27:28 -0800 (PST)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | Hello, I recently just downloaded a version of your software.....I
    | wanted to add it to my windows media player music list....But I can't
    | seem to find out how that is done. Is it possible? 

What are you trying to do? Audacity is a software program. You cannot add a 
program to Media Player's library of video and audio files.  All you need to do
is import an audio file into Audacity with Project > Import Audio (or record some
music into it) then export the audio out of Audacity as an audio file such as WAV
or MP3 to any location on your drive that you wish. Then to add that file to Media
Player's library, simply open Media Player with its library display visible, go to
the location to which you exported your file from Audacity, and drag the file into
Media Player. 

To keep the file available in the Library, make sure you don't delete it from the
original location you exported it to, because the library does not contain the
actual files, only links to where the files reside. For the same reason, you 
cannot export files from Audacity into the library - they have to be exported to 
an actual location on the drive first.  

If you want to export MP3s from Audacity, you need to add the LAME MP3
encoder to your computer and tell Audacity where it is. Please see this page 
for instructions on how to do this:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3


Gale Andrews 





Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 1/23/2007 6:06:53 AM

Could you please tell me how to post a question on the forum.  I can get
to the forum and I see where it says psot message here, but when you
click that it just show all the previous postings.

Or, can you answer my question.  I use Audacity1.2.5 with windows.  When
I record there is no waveform and nothing records.  If I hold the mic
right up close and yell into it, it records very faintly.

I did check to make sure mic was selected and plugged in properly.

Thanks,

Michelle

| From Michelle Dertell 
    | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:14:31 -0700
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | Could you please tell me how to post a question on the forum.  I can get
    | to the forum and I see where it says psot message here, but when you
    | click that it just show all the previous postings.

We do not have any place on the Forum where it says "post message here". 

To post to the Forum you first have to register. The "Register" link is top right
on the main Forum page or here 
http://audacityteam.org/forum/forum.php?req=register

Then you need to await and click on a confirmation email. If you do not appear 
to receive this, you may need to check your Trash box or other folders to which 
our email may have been filtered. The message subject is "validation link" and 
the email comes from 
forum@...  

If your spam filter has a whitelist system, add that address to its whitelist.  If 
necessary you can request another resend of the verification by logging in to the
Forum with your username and password and clicking the "resend verification
email" link. 

Once registration is thus confirmed, you can make a new post at any time by 
logging in with your username and password, clicking on the Forum tab top left, 
and clicking on the specific Forum you want to post to. Then there is a "Create 
new thread" link in the centre of the screen near the top and near the bottom of 
the page.

    | I use Audacity1.2.5 with windows.  When I record there is no waveform 
    | and nothing records.  If I hold the mic right up close and yell into it, it
    | records very faintly. I did check to make sure mic was selected and plugged 
    | in properly.

Please upgrade to 1.2.6 as there are issues with the Windows version of 1.2.5
making it liable to freeze after a period of use. 

If you have selected "mic" in Audacity's Mixer Toolbar dropdown selector but 
are not getting enough input volume,  try turning up the input volume slider
to left of the dropdown selector (by the microphone symbol). 

If that does not help, there may be problems with the sound device drivers not
interfacing properly with Audacity's Mixer Toolbar. Try adjusting the input volume 
of the microphone in the Windows Control Panel instead. To do this, click Start >
(Settings) > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices (or
right-click on the speaker icon in the System Tray > Adjust Audio Properties) and
click on the Audio tab. Click on Volume under the Sound Recording panel, and 
select "Mic" and turn the volume slider up. There may be an "Advanced" button
which when you click on it, allows you to turn on "AGC" or "Boost" which will
make the microphone record much more loudly, but may also cause hum. 

You can also make the microphone play back the recording through the speakers
so you can monitor what it sounds like while recording. To enable this, click on 
Volume in the Sound Playback panel and unmute "Mic". 
    
If you still cannot get a waveform, or you find that you have to go into the 
Windows Control Panel every time to change input source or level, it may
mean the soundcard drivers are out of date. Update them to the latest ones 
for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound device or 
motherboard. Do not use Microsoft drivers as they are only low quality generic
drivers. To update your sound device drivers: Start > (Settings) > Control 
Panel > System, click on the Hardware tab, and click the "Device Manager"
button on the Device Manager panel. Expand "Sound, Video and Game 
Controllers" by clicking on the + sign, right-click on the sound device and click
"update driver". If you cannot get an appropriate non-Microsoft driver, seek a 
driver from the manufacturer's website.


Gale Andrews

 




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 1/24/2007 7:21:10 PM

Thank you so much.

audacity-help@... wrote:

>     | From Michelle Dertell
>     | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:14:31 -0700
>     | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>     | Could you please tell me how to post a question on the forum.  I can get
>     | to the forum and I see where it says psot message here, but when you
>     | click that it just show all the previous postings.
>
> We do not have any place on the Forum where it says "post message here".
>
> To post to the Forum you first have to register. The "Register" link is top right
> on the main Forum page or here
> http://audacityteam.org/forum/forum.php?req=register
>
> Then you need to await and click on a confirmation email. If you do not appear
> to receive this, you may need to check your Trash box or other folders to which
> our email may have been filtered. The message subject is "validation link" and
> the email comes from
> forum@...
>
> If your spam filter has a whitelist system, add that address to its whitelist.  If
> necessary you can request another resend of the verification by logging in to the
> Forum with your username and password and clicking the "resend verification
> email" link.
>
> Once registration is thus confirmed, you can make a new post at any time by
> logging in with your username and password, clicking on the Forum tab top left,
> and clicking on the specific Forum you want to post to. Then there is a "Create
> new thread" link in the centre of the screen near the top and near the bottom of
> the page.
>
>     | I use Audacity1.2.5 with windows.  When I record there is no waveform
>     | and nothing records.  If I hold the mic right up close and yell into it, it
>     | records very faintly. I did check to make sure mic was selected and plugged
>     | in properly.
>
> Please upgrade to 1.2.6 as there are issues with the Windows version of 1.2.5
> making it liable to freeze after a period of use.
>
> If you have selected "mic" in Audacity's Mixer Toolbar dropdown selector but
> are not getting enough input volume,  try turning up the input volume slider
> to left of the dropdown selector (by the microphone symbol).
>
> If that does not help, there may be problems with the sound device drivers not
> interfacing properly with Audacity's Mixer Toolbar. Try adjusting the input volume
> of the microphone in the Windows Control Panel instead. To do this, click Start >
> (Settings) > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices (or
> right-click on the speaker icon in the System Tray > Adjust Audio Properties) and
> click on the Audio tab. Click on Volume under the Sound Recording panel, and
> select "Mic" and turn the volume slider up. There may be an "Advanced" button
> which when you click on it, allows you to turn on "AGC" or "Boost" which will
> make the microphone record much more loudly, but may also cause hum.
>
> You can also make the microphone play back the recording through the speakers
> so you can monitor what it sounds like while recording. To enable this, click on
> Volume in the Sound Playback panel and unmute "Mic".
>
> If you still cannot get a waveform, or you find that you have to go into the
> Windows Control Panel every time to change input source or level, it may
> mean the soundcard drivers are out of date. Update them to the latest ones
> for your computer model from the manufacturer of the sound device or
> motherboard. Do not use Microsoft drivers as they are only low quality generic
> drivers. To update your sound device drivers: Start > (Settings) > Control
> Panel > System, click on the Hardware tab, and click the "Device Manager"
> button on the Device Manager panel. Expand "Sound, Video and Game
> Controllers" by clicking on the + sign, right-click on the sound device and click
> "update driver". If you cannot get an appropriate non-Microsoft driver, seek a
> driver from the manufacturer's website.
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 1/24/2007 7:21:10 PM

Hi,
I recently downloaded Audacity. I'm having a problem figuring out what I =
have to choose for my input source.
I've got a cable running from my stereo microphone to the sound card on =
my computer. The cable is a stereo cable. It's 25' long. My stereo is in =
the next room beside my computer room.
The only setting that looks like any sound is being recorded is "Mono =
Out". Only the "left" looks like there is any sound coming in. However, =
when I try to play back the recording, the "left" & "right" show the =
green lines, but I only hear static.
What am I doing wrong???
Tom

Hi,
I solved the problem of the stereo input, but I'm still getting static =
playing back.
Please refer to my original e-mail for the rest of the problem.
Thanks,
Tom

comment faire pour afficher des marqueurs de pistes sur un fichier
enregistr=E9 avant de le tranform=E9 en mp3 ou autre ?

merci d'avance pour votre r=E9ponse

Qu'entendez vous par "afficher des marqueurs de piste", importer les ID3=20
tags ?


Cordialement

Christian Brochec, traducteur
Assistance francophone d'Audacity

christian@...

Forum francophone :
http://audacityteam.org/forum/forum/5

mdelangre a =E9crit :
> comment faire pour afficher des marqueurs de pistes sur un fichier
> enregistr=E9 avant de le tranform=E9 en mp3 ou autre ?
>
> merci d'avance pour votre r=E9ponse
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
--
> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, securit=
y?
> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job =
easier.
> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geron=
imo
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat=
=3D121642
>  =20

Hi,
This is my second request for this problem, since I haven't heard back =
from anyone.
I recently downloaded Audacity. I'm having a problem figuring out what I =
have to choose for my input source.
I've got a cable running from my stereo microphone to the sound card on =
my computer. The cable is a stereo cable. It's 25' long. My stereo is in =
the next room beside my computer room.
The only setting that looks like any sound is being recorded is "Mono =
Out".
When I try to record, I see the left & right tracks recording, but when =
I play back I only hear static.
What am I doing wrong???
Tom

Just downloaded, and it looks simple and fast. Congratulations.

Can't find the help file, which didn't seem to download with the  
package. I guess I missed something. Could you advise where it is?

Many thanks,

Brent

Brent Brolin
nonsequito@...
 http://www.brentcbrolin.com

All photos attached or in the body of this email are (c) 2006 Brent  
C. Brolin, and cannot be used in any form without the written  
permission of the photographer.

Hi,
 
I am using Audacity, very good. But why the menu where you can choose e.g.
Line In , wave or Aux etc, is grey, it doesn't open ?? So I can not click
anything here because it is closed.
Please help me.
with regards,
hein
 
 
 
 
Met vriendelijke groet, 
 
H. Taus
 
Homepage  http://www.home.versatel.nl/h.taus
No rights can be derived from this message. This electronic message is
intended only for the addressee. Should you have received this message in
error, you are kindly requested to delete it and inform the sender. Should
you question the accuracy or the completeness of this message, you are
advised to contact Hein Taus by mail. 
Nieuw voor Links  http://www.lnqs.com/heinfiroz/

Archive Gallery  http://heintaus.bravehost.com
<http://heintaus.bravehost.com/>

| From Hein Taus 
    | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:00:51 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am using Audacity, very good. But why the menu where you can choose e.g.
    | Line In , wave or Aux etc, is grey, it doesn't open ?? So I can not click
    | anything here because it is closed.

Please see this page for possible explanations of the problem and ways to 
resolve it:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system you are
on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X, whether it is an Intel 
Mac or Power PC). Also please tell us what version of Audacity you are using 
(see Help > About or Audacity > About in the program). 


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 2/13/2007 2:08:54 PM

| From TJ=20
    | Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:24:11 -0500
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | This is my second request for this problem, since I haven't heard=20
    |  back from anyone.
    | I recently downloaded Audacity. I'm having a problem figuring out wha=
t I
    | have to choose for my input source.
    | I've got a cable running from my stereo microphone to the sound card =
on my
    | computer. The cable is a stereo cable. It's 25' long. My stereo is in=
 the
    | next room beside my computer room.
    | The only setting that looks like any sound is being recorded is "Mono=
 Out".
    | When I try to record, I see the left & right tracks recording, but wh=
en I play
    | back I only hear static.

We are sorry for the delay replying, but development and support of the Aud=
acity
Project relies solely on unpaid volunteers working remotely from their own=
=20
computers. In the event of any extended disruption to our volunteers' power=
 or=20
telephone services, as has occurred recently, we may not be able to respond=
 as=20
we would wish.=20

The second message you sent did actually indicate you were now getting ster=
eo=20
input but it was still subject to "static". A cable of that length will nee=
d to be=20
of high quality and routed well away from other wires and cables to work pr=
operly
and will probably need routing into a mixer or pre-amplifier as well becaus=
e of the
cable length. If the microphone is a condenser type it must go through a mi=
xer
or pre-amplifier, as it must if it has two connectors.=20
=2E =20
You need to set the recording device on the Audio I/O tab of Audacity expli=
citly=20
to the sound device you are plugging into (not to Microsoft SoundMapper if =
you=20
are on Windows). If you have a dynamic microphone you could plug it directl=
y
into the microphone port of the computer but note the microphone input is
almost always mono, so will either only record one channel of the stereo=20
microphone, or will mix both channels to mono (according to how your soundc=
ard
handles this). Connecting directly to line-in on the computer will give you
insufficient volume. If you need to connect direct to the microphone port o=
n the=20
computer, choose an appropriate input (probably "Mic") in Audacity's Mixer=
=20
Toolbar dropdown selector. If as would be far preferable you connect the=20
microphone to a pre-amplifier or mixer, the pre-amplifier or mixer should b=
e=20
connected to line-in on the computer and line-in chosen as input source.

If you do not have an appropriate source in the selector, or if it is givin=
g you no
signal, you need to try and select it in the system mixer (e.g. Sounds and=
=20
Audio Devices in the Windows Control Panel), also ensuring of course that t=
he=20
input volume is turned up (either there, or using the input slider on Audac=
ity's
Mixer Toolbar).=20

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system you=
 are
on (e.g. Windows XP) and please tell us what version of Audacity you are us=
ing=20
(see Help > About in the program).=20


Gale Andrews =20











If you are still experiencing your issue, please send the same message agai=
n, and=20
we will endeavour to respond. Thank you for your patience.=20

=20
Gale Andrews





Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 2/17/2007 4:44:42 PM

I bought a ION USB turntable. My computer is a Mac with Operative  
system 10.4.8. I have very successfully recorded old vinyls, but i  
have  failed trying to record from a cassette deck. Could you advise  
me what to do (including configuration Mac/Audacity)? Thank you very  
much




Manuel F. Rivera
marickey@...

| From Manuel F. Rivera 
    | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:54 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I bought a ION USB turntable. My computer is a Mac with Operative  
    | system 10.4.8. I have very successfully recorded old vinyls, but i  
    | have  failed trying to record from a cassette deck. Could you advise  
    | me what to do (including configuration Mac/Audacity)? 

You need to decide whether you want to record from your cassettes via the
USB turntable, or via line-in of your computer (if it has a line-in port). 

If you want to record via the USB turntable, connect a cable from the 
headphones out of the cassette deck to the 1/8 inch stereo line input on the
turntable (by the 33/45 RPM buttons), and record as you would when
you are recording from an LP. Ion recommend that the phono cartridge is 
left installed while using the line input, and that the RCA jacks are either
plugged into an input device or not in contact with metal.     

If you prefer to connect from headphones out of the cassette deck to line-in 
of the computer (so the recorded signal enters the computer via line-in rather
than through its USB port), please see these instructions:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Transferring_audio_tapes_to_your_computer_or_to_CD



Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 2/26/2007 6:57:53 PM

Thank you very much for your very valuable answer.
Manuel F. Rivera
On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:57 PM, audacity-help@... wrote:

>
>     | From Manuel F. Rivera
>     | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:54 +0100
>     | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>     | I bought a ION USB turntable. My computer is a Mac with  
> Operative
>     | system 10.4.8. I have very successfully recorded old vinyls,  
> but i
>     | have  failed trying to record from a cassette deck. Could you  
> advise
>     | me what to do (including configuration Mac/Audacity)?
>
> You need to decide whether you want to record from your cassettes  
> via the
> USB turntable, or via line-in of your computer (if it has a line-in  
> port).
>
> If you want to record via the USB turntable, connect a cable from the
> headphones out of the cassette deck to the 1/8 inch stereo line  
> input on the
> turntable (by the 33/45 RPM buttons), and record as you would when
> you are recording from an LP. Ion recommend that the phono  
> cartridge is
> left installed while using the line input, and that the RCA jacks  
> are either
> plugged into an input device or not in contact with metal.
>
> If you prefer to connect from headphones out of the cassette deck  
> to line-in
> of the computer (so the recorded signal enters the computer via  
> line-in rather
> than through its USB port), please see these instructions:
> http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? 
> title=Transferring_audio_tapes_to_your_computer_or_to_CD
>
>
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 2/26/2007 6:57:53 PM
>
>
>

Manuel F. Rivera
10500 Rockville Pike # 718
Rockville MD 20852
marickey@...

=20
why i cant=B4t record songs from the Internet Radio. if i open Audacity  and=
=20
push the record button its to quiet to understood something from the  record=
ed=20
track




  =20

| From Divad31188=20
    | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:39:09 EDT
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | why i cant=B4t record songs from the Internet Radio. if i open Audaci=
ty  and=20
    | push the record button its to quiet to understood something from the =
=20
    | recorded track

Are you playing the Internet Radio loudly enough when you record it? You ar=
e
recording the sound, so it has to be played back loudly enough in the first=
 place,
and not muted.=20

Are you recording it loudly enough? Go to the Mixer Toolbar=20
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

and turn up the right-hand input volume slider (by the microphone symbol).=
=20
On the same Toolbar, look at the dropdown selector to right of the input vo=
lume
slider and make sure you are selecting "Stereo Mix" or whatever the source =
option
is called that records the output from the computer. This option may also b=
e called "wave out", "sum", "what U hear", "loopback" or other names. If th=
e selector is=20
greyed out, go to the Audio I/O tab of Audacity Preferences and make sure y=
ou=20
explicitly select the correct playback and recording devices - don't select=
 Microsoft
SoundMapper if you are on Windows.=20

Are you playing the recorded track back loudly enough in Audacity? Turn up =
the=20
left hand volume slider on the Mixer Toolbar  (by the speaker symbol).=20

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system you=
 are
on (e.g. Windows XP) and please tell us what version of Audacity you are us=
ing=20
(see Help > About in the program).=20


Gale Andrews




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 3/20/2007 6:15:31 PM

J=92ai audacity mais je voudr=E9 envoyer la music qui vien de mes vinyls

 ver mon lecteur cd =20

=20

| From bernard CHAIGNON=20
    | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:00:24 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | J=92ai audacity mais je voudr=E9 envoyer la music qui vien de mes vin=
yls
    | ver mon lecteur cd =20

A lire:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=3Drecording&i=3Drecords-tapes&la=
ng=3Dfr
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=3Dfiles&i=3Dburn-cd&lang=3Dfr

Il y a aussi:

Mode d'emploi en fran=E7ais:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/audacity-mode-d'emploi.pdf

Menu d=92aide d=92Audacity en fran=E7ais:
http://www.edu-clic.net/libre/article.php3?id_article=3D100

Il y a forum Francophone:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/forum/5

Devez vous enregistrer sur le forum avant que vous puissiez=20
poser une question.

FAQ en Fran=E7ais sont ici=20
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?lang=3Dfr

Autres Tutoriels
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DFrench_Information


Gale Andrews





Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 3/21/2007 6:54:21 AM

Dear sir.

I just beginning to use the program to get my old LP 's on CD.

Is it possible to make stops between the different songs. It is nice to be
able to jump from one song to a next one and not having one whole side of a
LP as a total block. Do you know the way to do that. 

Thanks , best regards Helene

| From Helene Michels 
    | Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:26:20 +0200
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I just beginning to use the program to get my old LP 's on CD.
    | Is it possible to make stops between the different songs. It is nice to be
    | able to jump from one song to a next one and not having one whole side of a
    | LP as a total block.

To do this you have to export the sections of recorded audio corresponding to the 
LP tracks as separate WAV or AIFF files, then burn those files as separate CD tracks. 
For instructions on how to do this please see:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks


Gale Andrews



Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 4/9/2007 7:53:31 PM

I am having an unusual problem that I need answered,   If you can ??

I am using ...........Audacity ver. 1.2.3
                              Windows 2000 operating system
                              Sound controller :   RealTek AC'97

I listen to and record from a couple of online radio sites,  namely   =
The Gospel HiWay  and  Live 365 All Quartets Radio.

My problem is ...............If I load the stations in first and then go =
to Audacity 1.2.3      The audio kicks into "slow speed"  =20
                                        sort of like listening to a 45 =
rpm record on 33 rpm speed.   Do you have any idea why this is=20
                                        happening ???????

The only way I can work around it is to load Audacity first and then go =
to the radio station/s,      Then I can record normally for one song,  =
then=20
save it.     Then I have to repeat the process again............Audacity =
first,  then log on to station again.       I can live with it that way. =
 =20
However,   I thought you might have some solution for this problem.     =
Any help would be appreciated.

04/18/07  I registered for the Audacity Forum yesterday but (please  
excuse my incompetence) am puzzled about how one posts a question to  
the Forum.  I never did receive an email confirmation of my  
registration --  should I have?  When I go to the site I am listed as  
'logged in'.   - Mehran Goulian

| From Mehran Goulian 
    | Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:17:46 -0700
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I registered for the Audacity Forum yesterday but (please  
    | excuse my incompetence) am puzzled about how one posts a question to  
    | the Forum.  I never did receive an email confirmation of my  
    | registration --  should I have?  When I go to the site I am listed as  
    | 'logged in'.   

After registering, you do indeed need to await an email from us and click on the
verification link it contains to complete your registration. Until that process is 
completed you won't be able to post messages even though you are logged in. 
Once the registration is completed, you post a new message by going to the 
Forum you want to post to, then there will be a "Create new thread" link in the 
centre of the screen near the top and near the bottom of the page.

If you do not appear to receive our email, you may need to check your Trash box 
or other folders to which it may have been filtered. The message subject is
"validation link" and the email comes from 
forum@...  

If your spam filter has a whitelist system, add that address to its whitelist. If 
necessary you can request another resend of the verification by logging in to the
Forum with your username and password and clicking the "resend verification
email" link. 

For now, I'd suggest you check your email folders as above and if necessary, request
a resend of the registration verification. You can always search the Forum for
previous answers, or write your question to this list if you post a question to the 
Forum but don't get an answer from one of the other users. 


Gale Andrews









Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 4/18/2007 5:19:38 PM

04/18  Gale, you a genius; it was in my over-eager Mail 'junk' bin.   
Many thanks.  -Micky
<<<<

 >>>>
On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:19 AM, audacity-help@... wrote:

>
>     | From Mehran Goulian
>     | Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:17:46 -0700
>     | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
>     | I registered for the Audacity Forum yesterday but (please
>     | excuse my incompetence) am puzzled about how one posts a  
> question to
>     | the Forum.  I never did receive an email confirmation of my
>     | registration --  should I have?  When I go to the site I am  
> listed as
>     | 'logged in'.
>
> After registering, you do indeed need to await an email from us and  
> click on the
> verification link it contains to complete your registration. Until  
> that process is
> completed you won't be able to post messages even though you are  
> logged in.
> Once the registration is completed, you post a new message by going  
> to the
> Forum you want to post to, then there will be a "Create new thread"  
> link in the
> centre of the screen near the top and near the bottom of the page.
>
> If you do not appear to receive our email, you may need to check  
> your Trash box
> or other folders to which it may have been filtered. The message  
> subject is
> "validation link" and the email comes from
> forum@...
>
> If your spam filter has a whitelist system, add that address to its  
> whitelist. If
> necessary you can request another resend of the verification by  
> logging in to the
> Forum with your username and password and clicking the "resend  
> verification
> email" link.
>
> For now, I'd suggest you check your email folders as above and if  
> necessary, request
> a resend of the registration verification. You can always search  
> the Forum for
> previous answers, or write your question to this list if you post a  
> question to the
> Forum but don't get an answer from one of the other users.
>
>
> Gale Andrews
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Outbound message virus free.
> Tested on: 4/18/2007 5:19:38 PM
>
>

| From DENVER HIGGINBOTHAM=20
    | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:06:18 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am having an unusual problem that I need answered,   If you can ??
    | I am using ...........Audacity ver. 1.2.3
    |                               Windows 2000 operating system
    |                               Sound controller :   RealTek AC'97
    |=20
    | I listen to and record from a couple of online radio sites,  namely=
=20
    | The Gospel HiWay  and  Live 365 All Quartets Radio.
    | My problem is ...............If I load the stations in first and then=
 go to
    | Audacity 1.2.3      The audio kicks into "slow speed"  =20
    | sort of like listening to a 45 rpm record on 33 rpm speed. =20
    |  Do you have any idea why this is happening ?
    |  The only way I can work around it is to load Audacity first and
    | then go to the radio station/s, Then I can record normally for one=20
    | song, then save it. Then I have to repeat the process again.......
    | Audacity first,  then log on to station again.  I can live with it th=
at
    | way.

Sorry we have not got back to you until now. I don't see a particular reaso=
n
why the audio should slow down if you hit Record in Audacity when it's
already playing, but does not if you hit Record before starting the web str=
eam,
unless it's either some effect of being short of computer resources and/or=
=20
more likely problems with your sound device drivers. Current, hardware-spec=
ific=20
drivers are needed for recording as this is much more demanding than simply=
=20
playing back.=20

Generally, pressing Record before starting the source input is the correct =
way to=20
do it, so you don't lose any of the recording. You can always trim away exc=
ess=20
audio afterwards. Why can you only record for one song at a time when you p=
ress
Record first, are the recordings freezing up otherwise?  What input source =
are you=20
recording from on the Mixer Toolbar dropdown selector - stereo mix, or are =
you=20
using a cable to send the output from line-out to the line-in?  Can you use=
 the=20
blue Pause button in Audacity when the first song is finished, then press P=
ause
again to restart the recording when the next song seems to be say 90% loade=
d?    =20

I'd recommend three things for now:
=2E
1) Please upgrade to the current 1.2.6. version of Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows =20

2) Please see this page in case you may be experiencing issues with having=
=20
    insufficient resources available to your computer
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DManaging_Computer_Resources_=
and_Drivers

3) Try updating the sound drivers for your Realtek device in Device Manager=
,=20
    and if necessary going to the Realtek site for updated drivers. See thi=
s page=20
    for instructions on what to do:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DUpdating_Sound_Device_Driver=
s

    This page has current AC97 Realtek drivers.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dlac97-2.aspx?lineid=3D5&famid=3D12&ser=
ies=3D8&Software=3DTrue

    but please try updating with Device Manager first of all.


Gale Andrews








Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 4/20/2007 1:33:55 AM

I am trying to record from a tape deck through my sound card (SB audigy) =
with no success. Can you help?
Henry

| From Hank 
    | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:41:47 -0400
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I am trying to record from a tape deck through my sound card
    | (SB audigy) with no success. Can you help?

Please see our tutorial: 
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Transferring_tapes_and_records_to_computer_or_CD

especially the sections about connecting the player and setting up Audacity.

If you have any further questions after studying the tutorial, please tell us what
operating system you are on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4, and if you are on 
OS X, whether you have an Intel Mac or Power PC). Also please tell us what 
version of Audacity you are using (see Help > About Audacity or Audacity > 
About Audacity in the program). 


Gale Andrews


Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 4/20/2007 5:30:38 PM

I have the new Windows Vista software and some programs are not yet  
compatible.  Will  Audacity work for me?  I am looking for a  simple single-voice 
recording program for teaching melodies to students.  I  want to use a microphone 
and make Mp3 files or CDs for them.
 
Thank you,
Leslie 



************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

| From CanCant4U 
    | Fri, 4 May 2007 10:44:46 EDT
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I have the new Windows Vista software and some programs are not yet
    | compatible.  Will  Audacity work for me?  I am looking for a simple
    | single-voice recording program for teaching melodies to students.  I want 
    | to use a microphone and make Mp3 files or CDs for them.

Audacity as a program does support Vista. However (whatever program you use 
for recording) you will need appropriate sound device drivers that are both
specifically meant for Vista and specific to your sound device, or you may 
encounter problems. Please see this page for more advice on Audacity and Vista:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Vista_OS

Audacity will do what you require with these provisos:

1-  You have to add the LAME MP3 encoder to your computer and point 
     Audacity to it, before you can export MP3s from your recording. You only 
     have to do this once. Please see:
     http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lame_Installation

2   There is no "on the fly" recording straight to MP3. Recordings are stored in 
     a high quality uncompressed format and then exported when required to 
     audio files like MP3, or WAV.  

3   Audacity does not have built in CD burning ability. So you need to export 
     to an audio file (e.g. WAV if you want to burn an Audio CD suitable for 
     playing in all standalone CD players), then burn with iTunes, Windows 
     Media Player or standalone burning software like Toast or Nero.


Gale Andrews







Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 5/4/2007 6:21:00 PM

HI

 

I can't open the Float meter bar. I cant monitor the input levels. 

 

Please what can I do ?

 

 

Thanks

 

Isaac

| From fridi 
    | Tue, 8 May 2007 15:35:03 +0300
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I can't open the Float meter bar. I cant monitor the input levels

If the Meter Toolbar is not visible, go to the Interface tab of Preferences and
check "Enable Meter Toolbar". If you use the command View > Float Meter
Toolbar, this undocks it from its normal position. You can also float the Meter
Toolbar (or the other toolbars) by grabbing the serrated left edge and dragging
with the mouse. When a toolbar is floated, the command in the View menu
changes to "Dock".


Gale Andrews





Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 5/8/2007 5:40:24 PM

Hello,
   
  Can I use Audacity to record myself singing into a microphone connected to my audio port on my computer with a karaoke song from Rhapsody?
   
  Thanks!
  Ray

       
---------------------------------
Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
 Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

| From Ray Jimenez 
    | Tue, 8 May 2007 15:51:52 -0700 (PDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | Can I use Audacity to record myself singing into a microphone connected to
    | my audio port on my computer with a karaoke song from Rhapsody?

Yes, but we'd strongly recommend to make the most professional job that you 
get the karaoke song into Audacity first on its own track, then record the vocal
while listening to Audacity's playback of the karaoke track. That way, you can 
edit any mistakes in your vocal independently of the karaoke without having to
go back and re-record the entire karaoke and vocal again. For example, you might
want to silence a stray breath or similar in your vocal, and if you recorded the vocal
and karaoke together, you could not silence the breath without silencing that part 
of the karaoke. 

To get the karaoke into Audacity, if it's a file you downloaded from Rhapsody 
you can't import it into Audacity as it will be protected. You could burn it to a 
CD with Rhapsody, extract the CD track to a WAV file, then import the WAV
into Audacity with the Project > Import Audio command. For help on extracting
the CD track to a WAV file, see:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_import_CDs

Or you can play the karaoke file in Rhapsody and record it as it plays (of course
if the karaoke is not a file on your computer but a stream from Rhapsody, that's
what you would have to do). To record the file or stream as it plays, please see:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=streaming

So with the karaoke recorded or imported into Audacity, you go to the Audio I/O
tab of its Preferences, and check "Play other tracks while recording new one". Then
on the same tab, set the playback device and recording device explicitly to your
inbuilt sound card or sound device (not to Microsoft SoundMapper if you are as
I assume on a Windows computer). Finally, go to the Mixer Toolbar: 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

and in the dropdown selector on the right, choose Microphone, and turn up the 
volume slider to left of the selector (by the microphone symbol). 

If you want to hear your voice as you record it, go to the system mixer (e.g.
the Audio tab of Sounds and Audio Devices in the Windows Control Panel) and
in the playback section, unmute the microphone and turn its volume up. 

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system you are
on (e.g. Windows XP) and what version of Audacity you are using (see Help >
About Audacity in the program). 


Gale Andrews





Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 5/9/2007 1:22:16 AM

hi i am using 1.3 beta audacity and want to record music without the
higher frequencies and then gradually reintroduce these higher
frequencies ..i am trying to do this as an alternative
treatment for tinnitus and hearing loss  i have looked at the FAQs and
couldn't find anything about this, any help you could give me would be
really appreciated
thanks kylie jones

--=20
Get a Free E-mail Account at Mail.com!
Choose From 100+ Personalized Domains
Visit http://www.mail.com today

-I m using 1.2.6 Audacity. 
  In my Gateway laptop, when I record, my voice tracks and the instrumental song seem to be in sync with each other. 
  However, in my Acer laptop, I could not do this. The instrumental song plays a little earlier than my voice tracks.
  How come this happens? 
  (please note that in both laptops, I use the built in mics)
   
  -Should I use a USB microphone for Audacity to make the sound clearer? Do I need to have any other thing in order to get Audacity to recognize my USB mic? HOw do I set Audacity's audio input? (External Mic, Internal Mic, Line In, CD Audio)
   
  Thanks

       
---------------------------------
Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail

| From Mike Ngo 
    | Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:08:51 -0400 (EDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    | I m using 1.2.6 Audacity. 
    | In my Gateway laptop, when I record, my voice tracks and the 
    | instrumental song seem to be in sync with each other. 
    | However, in my Acer laptop, I could not do this. The instrumental
    | song plays a little earlier than my voice tracks.
    | How come this happens? 
    | (please note that in both laptops, I use the built in mics)

When you record on a consumer level computer there will always be a delay 
between you singing into your microphone and the recording of your voice
being laid down in the waveform, because of the time it takes the audio to 
travel through the sound device and be processed. Audacity does compensate
for this delay by pushing the the recorded track backwards slightly after 
recording, but in the Acer laptop the delay seems to be slightly greater than
Audacity's compensation. However you can always adjust the synchronisation 
of the recorded track with the one already on screen by using the Time Shift 
Tool <---> top left to drag the recorded track left or right to its correct
position.    

To use the Time Shift Tool you click on the <---> symbol so it appears to be 
depressed, or type its hotkey (F5). Then zoom in (CTRL + 1) so you can make 
a more precise alignment and click in your recorded track with the left button of
the mouse and hold the button down while dragging the track to your required
position, then release the mouse button. 


    | Should I use a USB microphone for Audacity to make the sound clearer? 
    | Do I need to have any other thing in order to get Audacity to recognize
    | my USB mic? HOw do I set Audacity's audio input? (External Mic, 
    | Internal Mic, Line In, CD Audio)

Built in microphones are typically of low standard, so I would expect almost
any USB microphone to be superior to a laptop built in microphone. A USB
microphone probably would have greater delay, but you could compensate for 
that with the Time Shift Tool. 

A USB microphone is a recording device in its own right, just as your computer
sound device is. So to record from the USB microphone, you need to select it
explicitly as your recording device in the Audio I/O tab of Audacity Preferences.
The Mixer Toolbar dropdown (where you choose the line-in and microphone 
inputs when you computer sound device is the selected recording device) will
be greyed out when the USB microphone is the selected recording device.   

Should you be on OS X, you also need to click Mac hard disk and then on 
Applications >  Utilities > Audio-MIDI Setup. Click on the Audio Devices tab and
make sure on the left-hand side that your USB microphone is selected in the
"Default Input" and  "Properties for" dropdowns.

If you have any further questions, please tell us what operating system you are
on (e.g. Windows XP,  OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X, whether you have an 
Intel Mac or Power PC). 



Gale Andrews




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 8/9/2007 9:08:39 AM

HI, I 've decided to use a dynamic microphone, instead of the Built-in microphone of my laptop.
  So I've bought a Beta 58A, Precision Crafted Vocal Microphone. Also, I've bought the M-Audio Interface. I've installed the Driver for M-Audio interface from the CD.
HOwever, I cannot get Audacity to recognize this new device. Any advice for me?
   
  My laptop is Gateway, Window XP professional, service package 2. 
  Thank you

       
---------------------------------
All new Yahoo! Mail  
---------------------------------
Get news delivered. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page.

| From Mike Ngo 
    | Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:01:27 -0400 (EDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] question
    |  I 've decided to use a dynamic microphone, instead of the
    | Built-in microphone of my laptop. So I've bought a Beta 58A, 
    | Precision Crafted Vocal Microphone. Also, I've bought the M-Audio 
    | Interface. I've installed the Driver for M-Audio interface from the CD.
    | HOwever, I cannot get Audacity to recognize this new device.
    | My laptop is Gateway, Window XP professional, service package 2. 

There are quite a number of M-Audio interfaces. Is it a USB or Firewire 
device and what is the name of it? To record from it, you need to select it
explicitly as your recording device in the Audio I/O tab of Audacity
Preferences. Note that if its device drivers support ASIO, Audacity won't see 
those, because we cannot support ASIO due to licensing restrictions. If this is
the problem, you need to use the device's non-ASIO drivers or (if appropriate) 
use the Windows USB audio class drivers. See the product's manual for more 
guidance.

If problems persist, you could try Audacity 1.3.3 which uses a later version of 
our PortAudio interface. 
 
    
Gale Andrews
 




Outbound message virus free.
Tested on: 8/10/2007 8:03:58 AM