On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:11:54 PM UTC-6, JohnV wrote: > > My only take on AUDACITY is that, while it seems (both on looking and > its reputation) to be very functional, I found it completely at odds > with my idea of something even remotely intuitive or ergonomically > sensible. I couldn;t mange to get ANYTHING done easily, or > instinctively.
Yeah, I agree with you John. Audacity has one window, and on that window (among many other things) is a Record button (round), and a Stop button (square), and I managed to figure that out, by trial and error, mostly error. When I hit Record, the waveform of the captured music appears in the window, and when it hit Stop, it stops recording. Then I go to the File menu and export the captured audio into a folder, and that's that. What all the rest of that stuff is all around the window---all those other icons and controls, I don't know. And why you can scroll upward through many other capture windows, I don't know either. Another thing I found: if you hit Stop, and the capture stops, and then you hit Record again, it starts recording back at the beginning again, recording right over what you've already got, so you don't want to do that. (Maybe I should choose a second capture window?) Other than that, you do have to launch Soundflowerbed before Audacity, and then in the Sound prefs panel, choose Soundflowerbed as both the Input and the Output, or else Audacity won't do anything. And that is the sum total of my knowledge of Audacity, and yet I've managed to capture some nice music with it today. So, it works. And it's free. But I'm open to trying other apps, and probably will, based on what other people are recommending here. All the best, Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
