Audacity

I ain't the only one.

sure you're the same way how many songs do you have right now that uh you haven't uh you haven't done anything with you haven't put it on instagram or youtube you haven't put on facebook or snap turtle or uh uh you know the tiktok and all the rest of it you know and um you got GarageBand, and you got Cakewalk, and you got Pro Tools, you got Audacity, and you got, you know, you got all these media players and all this stuff, and you got some stuff written out, and you maybe got some beats that you like, and you put some stuff together, but man, this happened, that happened, this happened, now you're like, hey man, man, I need to work on this stuff.

Be nice, right? Be nice to work on this stuff.

Sometimes you can.

Yeah.

Oh, my God, I could see that thunder on the Audacity.

On the Audacity.

So, okay, so I don't remember who she's talking to, but she is implying that Ryder, I keep calling him Ryder because it's William, but I keep forgetting his first name, that he doesn't think of her romantically, and that is what makes dancing more enjoyable for her.

Because they're just kind of like goofing and having fun and being friends.

So just as a note for that.

With Audacity 4, I had one simple question-

[laughs]

... that I wanted answered.

And when I installed version four and I went to export it, it showed as preset, which is variable.

So to check this, basically you wanna change this.

If you've installed Audacity 4, just record a few seconds, a second or two of audio, then go to File, Export Audio, MP3, and then look at the bitrate mode.

It'll probably say f- the factory default is preset.

I'll play my audio, and I won't use Suno's download feature.

And I can just use Audacity or your favorite capture tool and subvert their download.

Because when you download from Suno, it's attaching that digital fingerprint of some kind.

That's a technology I've not dived into yet.

And so we put a poll up for our patrons.

And on the list was Audacity.

which is an amazing audio program, OBS, which is how we're sending the video to you right now.

GIMP, of course, where we get our thumbnails created and do any of our artwork that's needed.

Obviously, that's the kind of song that How Do I Live is, but that slight difference means I had to slow the tempo down on Rhymes' recording by about 1.5% if you're interested to make the two versions align when overlaid.

I didn't adjust the pitch, mind you, which, by the way, in 2026, using free software, shout out to Audacity, I'm able to do what George Martin couldn't do in the 60s, and that's change the speed of a recording without altering the pitch.

Anyway, listen specifically to these two vocals on top of each other and tell me if you think these two great singers took vastly different approaches to How Do I Live.

How do I get through one night without you? If I had to live without you, what kind of life would that be? If you ever leave,

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