Audacity Forum

That may help in the short term. That's what I need - 3-4 minutes of playing. How full, fragmented, or slow is your hard drive? It's 298 GB Total/295 GB Free, unfragmented (Disk Defragmenter says that). Live audio (or video) production retires many computers. No, I use it for a vinyl cutter (homema...

Turn off Unnecessary Applications Defrag Your Hard Drive Give priority to "Background Services" ( Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced tab. Click the Performance "Settings" button and select the Advanced tab. Under Processor Scheduling, select "Background services" ) Thank you, that helps! I a...

The soundcard is in the computer. I put it in different PCI slots but I do not think that's the problem. And it happens randomly when Audacity plays audio track, i.e. after I click "Play" button.

I think that I solved the problem. I think it's because of the antivirus program, because I checked the list of untrusted files and discovered that audacity.exe is there. Maybe after I open Audacity the antivirus program starts to inspect what Audacity does and slows down the computer. I disabled it...

Also it's not the soundcard because Winamp sounds good without these problems.

I don't know how to say it in english but it's something like loop playing, getting faster and sometimes I hear crackles.

Hello! I have a problem with Audacity 1.3.12 Beta running on Windows XP Professional SP 3. A few weeks ago I installed Audacity and I have no problems but suddenly it starts shift while playing for 0.5 - 1 second and continues playing. I have no idea why it does that. Oh, and my soundcard is Creativ...