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how I can get the microphone to record in Audacity? If the bouncing green sound meters in Audacity are moving and you get blue soundwaves when you record, you are getting a show whether or not you can hear it. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudacityRecording-650w.jpg I don't know why the he...

What happens now in 2.2.2?

Koz

Now that it's too late. That adapter may not be the one for you. Turns out the tape (actual tape) machines took a smaller connection and not the standard 3.5mm we all know and love. I did it with a standard cable and a stand-alone adapter. 3.5mm > 2.5mm. I also took the opportunity to convert from t...

Exporting to WAV (or AIFF) immediately after recording is a good practice. There is no sound quality difference between those two. AIFF has better support for extras such as show information. However, WAV (Microsoft) is unconditionally accepted across all three computer types. You may have trouble ...

second failure's original WAV to start editing all over again Exactly correct. Losing an edit is awkward and inconvenient; everybody's been there. Your show will be late. Losing the show completely is most serious. I did gloss over several twists and turns. The first Project Event is Save Project a...

I run Audacity on Win7 Professional.

When was the last time you did a clean start?

Shift-Shutdown > Wait for it to finish > Start.

Regular shutdown doesn't reset everything because nobody liked the extra time it took.

Koz

If it's still open now, can you Edit > UNDO?

Once you close Audacity, it wipes all its background saved work. In MacOS and Linux, that's the end.

Koz

I wrote this for a different poster.

This is full-on obsessive mode for creating a show.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 01#p343901

Koz

I just produced this for a different poster.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 01#p343901

Next three pages including graphic.

Koz

That's Full Obsessive Mode . Export a WAV file of the original recording. Duplicate that somewhere else if it's not recoverable. Thumb drive? Save a Project during and at the end of the first day's edit. Save a different Project during and at the end of the second day's edit. Save a different projec...