Audacity Forum

Your error goes the wrong way. Normally when a machine runs short of resources it records slowly or drops bits. That gives a fast playback.

What happens if you overdub a second time? Do tracks two and three match? If they do, then it's not an instability or machine process error.

Koz

Try Windows cold shutdown. Shift - Shutdown. It will take longer than a regular restart or shutdown, but Windows resets and restarts a bunch more things when you do that. Post back when you do that whether or not it worked. These "for no reason" failures are making everybody crazy. By the ...

Audacity > View > Toolbars > Reset Toolbars.

Koz

The extremes of each tiny window are click and drag points. You can put the windows wherever you want including in a couple of cases outside of the Audacity work window altogether. My personal favorite is to change the sound meter range to 96dB (max of 16-bit) and stretch the meters across the whole...

Denon's headphones output

You should be careful with that. The headphone connection usually comes with a volume control somewhere on the unit. Once you get a transfer you like, don't touch that knob, or mark it carefully so you can always go back.

Koz

Did you used to have an older version of Audacity on this machine? The 2.1.3 installer should have asked you if you want to reset all settings and preferences. Did you say yes?

Koz

I think we only got part of the story.

List the things you want to record:

Koz

You can let Audacity play a lot of different sound files by adding the FFMpeg software. Scroll down. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ You can force Windows 7 to tell you what the file types are by setting it to un-hide file extensions. https://www.howtohaven.com/system/show-file-extensi...

my Audacity does record me, and technically it does record others talking

Are you trying to record Skype?

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 84#p332984

Are you set for Windows Auto Update?

Koz

Since Microsoft bought Skype, they have been making some very serious and rapid changes. Many of the older recorder software packages and even Audacity itself either don't work at all, deliver distorted work, or are unstable and unreliable, or in extreme, unsupported or missing. As far as I can tell...