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Hey everybody just wanted to say I think my issue was a bad hard drive. I was having general slowness on all tasks so I got a new drive. While cloning the old drive the cloning software reported lots of errors including on some of my audio files. I haven't actually tested recording yet on the new dr...

I'll give that a try, thanks

that is correct. I had at least 2 more files that had the same error with me making sure nothing else was sucking up resources in the Activity Monitor as suggested here.

Isn't that just to fix playback errors? Would that imply that the error only exists when played back in Audacity? Maybe only on my machine? I can confirm that the error is still present on my editor's machine using pro-tools also

Here's an export of the error in WAV.

I can confirm it's present in the same spot in the original .aup file too.

Watched Activity monitor closely last night and Chrome and Chrome Helper were way up there when they were running. 90%! Good news was, when I used "Quit Chrome" they seemed to no longer be running. Hopefully, that will solve the issue. Even though I usually closed browser windows, I don't think I al...

I didn't see the other post because I first put this in the audiobook section. Both the other poster and I were talking with Paul Licaemeli on facebook and he encouraged us to bring the issue you here.

You can delete this whole thread if you like. I'm 99% sure we are experiencing the same issue.

Hello, I am having an issue. I have only used Audacity 2.1.1 so I don't know if it has existed for a while. Anyway...from time to time I have garbled audio in my files. I have noticed it particular in long recordings, doing audio books, though not always after recording for a long time. For instance...