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Posted: June 26 2005,16:22 QUOTE

Hi,

I've been having problems with sound editing that I really need to get straightened out so I can delete my windoze partition.

Please don't hesitate to ask me for more specific details if I am not expressing myself well enough for you to understand what is happening.

I have an HDD install of DSL on a reasonably fast (2.5 GHz) machine. I have tried reinstalling audacity.dsl and the problem remains.

I am able to open a .mp3 of the song I want to take clips from and convert it just fine. I am then able to select the section of the song I want and play it, but somewhere in between pasting it into a new audacity window and saving it, audacity freezes. I have yet to be able to save a single clip.

I'm a newbie, so I'm hoping that I'm just missing something painfully obvious here.

Thank you for your time.


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Posted: June 26 2005,19:23 QUOTE

What version are you using?  There were some bug fixes from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2.
Are you running out of memory?
Are you trying to save as an mp3? Although there is support for this format, you will need libmp3lame in order to write mp3s.


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Posted: June 26 2005,20:48 QUOTE

Quote (mikshaw @ June 26 2005,15:23)
Are you trying to save as an mp3? Although there is support for this format, you will need libmp3lame in order to write mp3s.

Ah; now we're getting somewhere. :D

Thank you so much for your quick reply.

I've managed to save three clips as .WAV now; sometimes when I paste a clip, it does not play at the correct speed, but I seem to remember that being a problem with audacity when I was using the windoze port.


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Posted: July 01 2005,16:01 QUOTE

ALL RIGHT!!!! I'm making major progress here, playing with my existing files, cutting and pasting, almost there.

I think I'm ready for some advice on setting up my my microphone; I am a bit of a distro slut so I know from reading the KRecord handbook that this isn't going to be easy.

Please don't hesitate to ask me for more information if I'm not making myself clear. If I take awhile to answer/update it's because I take awhile to learn. ;)

'kay, the first thing that happens is that I click on the same little red record button I click on in my windoze port of audacity and I get this error message:

"Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device and project sample rate."

Not having a clue how to do this and always on the lookout for back doors, I start playing around with the "Generate" menu, go to Generate>Silence, and once I have successfully created my nothing, I pick up the microphone and click on the record button again to see if anything happens.

Amazingly enough it does! No error message and the little red level shows that the microphone is picking up the sound and recording.

There are only two catches: The volume (too low and using the "amplify" effect just makes it so scratchy as to be unintelligible) and the speed (too slow and the"change speed" effect appears to have no effect).

I greatly appreciate any and all suggestions on the appropriate next stage of my incredible journey.

TYA


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Posted: July 01 2005,19:09 QUOTE

There's an input volume slider to the left of the input dropdown list. Maybe that will help.  You might also want to check the input volume on your mixer (e.g. wmix)...might be listed as 'mic' or 'line' or 'aux' or something else, depending on how your system is wired and configured

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