Audacity Forum

I'm having trouble getting a clean MP3 Lame copy. Normally, I wouldn't have the ear to notice a difference between WAV and MP3, but now my MP3 exports are really sounding ugly. What's the remedy?

That was it! What an amazing difference! What's weird is that I never had that problem before. Was the default changed somewhere along the line to make this reset necessary? Oh, never mind; I'm just delighted it works again. This summer I'm teaching people how to use Audacity for the local community...

Yes, stevethefiddle, the solution above solved the crashing problem--thank you very much! I can still hear a difference in quality between the wav and MP3 versions, and my ears are not so trained as to notice these things. The MP3 has a slight reverb to it as if the speaker has a cold. (Too technica...

Whoops on that post placement!
This is today's version of 1.3.7 as I've downloaded and deleted and downloaded several times in an attempt to identify the source of the problem. I've also replaced every applicable driver. Thanks!

Further info: XP on HP MediaCenter m390n--someone was bound to ask that.

I am using 1.3.7 Beta. Exports in .wav are fine. Exports in MP3 are ugly, garbled, echoed. Now each MP3 export ends in an Audacity crash. Suggestions?

I'm having the same problem with 1.3.7. I have good levels at the hardware mixer, strong playback from Audacity and playback on all other apps. But mic will not show a record level.