Audacity Dotpup - A fast, cross-platform audio editor

[mikeb]

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]

Awesome, perfect, thanks!

Will report back how he does ...

[disciple]

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

[mikeb]

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

there is a mono option (plus the above) if voice only and you want to save space too

mike

[disciple]

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]

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...

good point...I've been using music and adding vocal (mono) tracks (audacity is very good for multitracking music mastering) and looking again there only settings for input. Fiddly but some converters can simply strip out one channel for a mono result rather than recode.

mike

[edoc]

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]

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

Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device settings and the project sample rate.

I do have the lame codec loaded and Audacity appears to otherwise function OK.

[mikeb]

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]

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]

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]

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