At least I think it was him that said that. His phrase has nothing whatever to do with the open source recording program Audacity, but it sounded like a good title for the post. I'm happy to report that my program describing Audacity last Saturday was mostly successful...
in that I was able to demonstrate that an incoming signal from an Ion USB turntable was received and recorded within the Audacity program. Now, my craptop, er, laptop, was not sufficiently powerful to record without dropouts (should have used the 16 bit setting rather than the 32 bit) BUT when the mistake occurred, the dropouts were visible on the spectrograph (the readout that looks like something in a hospital), demonstrating how that graphical readout worked. I also was able to field a question about eliminating LP ticks and pops, which also uses the graphical readout to locate them (as single-line perpendicular excursions above or below the zero point). I brought along the CD I successfully burned on Audacity for Mac (my Linux craptop having been the site of the failed attempt), but since I burned the disk incorrectly (selection transferred as a file), I was not able to demonstrate the success on that other computer (no dropouts on that recording, though). In other news, I mentioned that a USB wireless antenna for laptops which had traditionally not supported Linux is now doing so, shipping with a "driver CD" serving Windows, OSX and Linux (source: ccrane.com, being the C. Crane company).
NEXT SHOWS: First show next month (second Saturday of June) will be Donna on the TRK forensics toolkit, and the second show of June (fourth Saturday) will be Allan on Myth TV, which is a way to transform a spare machine into some kind of Tivoid-MediaCenter-esque storage area for video product - but under Linux. Since it's more complicated than text, I don't understand it, but perhaps you will. Newfangled shenanigans... hmpf.
