{"id":104,"date":"2006-06-07T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2006-06-07T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T20:03:26","slug":"audacitys-cold-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2006\/06\/07\/audacitys-cold-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity&#8217;s &#8220;cold&#8221;-play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I did a little experiment. A friend sent me some lyrics and piano score for a song by Coldplay and I thought I&#8217;d give it a try for fun. \ud83d\ude42 It actually started as a way to test the recording\/playback on that computer (there was a sound issue) and (un)fortunately, it ended like that too. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBesides false notes on the piano and a crappy microphone, I stumbled upon a very weird problem with Audacity only, which caused me to pull open the case and start fumbling with switches on the motherboard. Recording went fine, but playback didn&#8217;t work while all other applications had no problem. Anyway, I won&#8217;t elaborate any more here, as I already did the <a href=\"http:\/\/audacityteam.org\/forum\/post\/6604\">full story on the Audacity forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the stupid surround problem thingy, I actually learned some interesting news about audacity: I had been recording all afternoon erasing tracks &#038; rerecording when it was just a tad off beat; thinking: it would be incredibly great if Audacity would just let me drag those tracks a few milliseconds earlier or later&#8230;. Only to realize a few hours later (when I was finished of course ;)),  the beta already supports this&#8230; D&#8217;oh!!! Check out the nice <a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/download\/features-1.3-c.php\">&#8220;multiple clips feature&#8221;<\/a>! One of the devs also told me upcoming versions will support DirectSound, which would pre-eliminate my original problem. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I did a little experiment. A friend sent me some lyrics and piano score for a song by Coldplay and I thought I&#8217;d give it a try for fun. \ud83d\ude42 It actually started as a way to test the recording\/playback on that computer (there was a sound issue) and (un)fortunately, it ended like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2006\/06\/07\/audacitys-cold-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audacity&#8217;s &#8220;cold&#8221;-play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lounge","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}