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mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

In audacity I don't select new I just press record...then pause/pause to stop and start which produces one track that can be exported as mp3 or wav

mike

edoc · Posted: Tue 16 Jun 2009, 20:18 Post_subject:

Awesome, perfect, thanks!

Will report back how he does ...

disciple · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 03:49 Post_subject:

Yes. In my audacity anyway:
1. Open audacity.
2. Press record button.
3. Press pause button to pause and then unpause.
4. Press stop.
5. Click File-Export.
6. Choose mp3, and the settings you want for the mp3. IMO you should always use "Joint stereo".

Before recording (only once, not every time), I suggest you click File-Preferences-Quality, and choose a default sample rate of 44100Hz and default sample format of 16bit. Unless you have a reason for choosing something else of course Smile

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

disciple · Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2009, 04:18 Post_subject:

You can't save the actual mp3 in mono, but I guess recording in mono would increase the quality of the final output in a joint stereo mp3, as there would be no stereo information, but it would be the same total bitrate...

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

edoc · Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2009, 19:23 Post_subject:

I forgot to report back.

Thanks to the help from the Forum my son is happily back to making his voice tracks using Audacity.

edoc · Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2009, 14:55 Post_subject:

I am receiving this error when I try to play audio in Audacity:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

the 0.2 version uses oss so only one application can output audio at a time....and other oss application could be using the sound card also even if you are using the later audacity...xmms, older flashplayer or similar

mike

edoc · Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2009, 16:05 Post_subject:

Only things open are several Seamonkey Web windows,
http://www.sfr-fresh.com/linux/misc/
http://swap.qth.com/all.php
http://www.bestbuy.com
(none of which I believe call for sound.)
Also ... one Seamonkey E-mail window, gftp, Geany, and one or two Rox-filers.

Anything there look like a source of conflict?

I did observe that I had to close Audacity before I could play the mp3 using Pmusic, which suggests to me that Audacity had in fact captured oss.

WDYT?

edoc · Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2009, 16:31 Post_subject:

I changed the default Preference to Alsa Default, closed everything and rebooted then opened Audacity alone.

It took so long to load I almost tried a second time - then it finally opened.

It took 13 seconds to open a 21 second mp3 file and another 8 seconds to try and play it - only to pop up the same error again.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

I have found audacity...or at least this version very buggy with alsa...portaudio is used which appears to be a major source of problems on distros that use it.
Only thing I can suggest is to use oss and work around that which is what I ended up doing...unless of course that is failing to work properly either.

sorry for the lack of positive answers

regards

mike