[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

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Greg:


thanks for catching the GUI typo, that was probably me.


I've also noticed, I remember vaguely, that you can import MP4s in Audacity and it will treat them effectively as MP3s.  I don't think it says that in the official documentation though - or at least we'd need to find it first, before mentioning it in ours.  Just IMHO.


I've started getting used to ShotCut, an opensource video editor that inputs and outputs just about every file format known to humanity.  Maybe that needs to be the next Floss Manual, as their official site has extremely sparse documentation -- it's a really good tool, holding it's own easily with all the other (really good) free video editors out there, but it seems to be literally two guys in their spare time, and they have no time for documenting anything.  Audacity is now lavishly documented in comparison...


Matt


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Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

I made a minor edit in the Recording chapter: GIU > GUI.

I don't have a lot of experience with Audacity, but on Fedora
(PulseAudio) I find that either I need pavucontrol for setting up
recording of streaming sound (from Firefox for example) or it's much
easier with it.

Something else I've noted just by trying it is that if you save an .mp4
file using something like downloadhelper in Firefox, you can import
these into Audacity, where it only shows and plays the audio portion, of
course, then export as .mp3 if you just want the sound. This can be the
easiest way to get recordings, except when downloads are blocked, in
which case recording the streaming is the way to go.

Greg
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