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The "talking into a fan"effect is what we call "skipping". It happens during recording when some part of the computer system is struggling to keep up with the data being recorded. A common cause for this is running other applications at the same time, particularly applications t...

Do you know if it played OK yesterday? As far as I know, it did not. However, the first time I played it back was after having restarted my computer. Two minutes of the audio in my file has randomly been corrupted. It's not unplayable, but the sound spikes and falls in such a way that voices can ba...

Two minutes of the audio in my file has randomly been corrupted. When did that happen, and how did that happen? Which version of Windows? Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity"). I'm running Audacity 2.0.2 and Windows 10. It happened yesterday night. As far as I ...

Two minutes of the audio in my file has randomly been corrupted. It's not unplayable, but the sound spikes and falls in such a way that voices can barely be understood, like talking into a fan. Of the entire half-hour file, only minutes 3 to 5 have been corrupted in this way. Are they recoverable?