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This seems to be a sudden onset problem. On the video forums this was the cue to look for hard drives filling up. "I didn't do anything unusual and it just stopped working right." Turns out the System Drive had 500M left and was gasping for air. That's "M" not "G". You...

Raw never works. It depends on you telling it in fine detail how to open a file that you know nothing at all about.

What happens if you install the FFMpeg software and then try a simple import?

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown

Koz

Before you spend money for a new microphone, Google complaints. If you find one or two people with microphone problems, it's probably OK, but if you find many people with the same problem, that's a danger sign.

Koz

You were supposed to complain that you couldn't get any of them to work right. <g>
Koz

What is the actual job? We sometimes get into trouble by letting the poster very greatly magnify the wrong problem. Are you overdubbing? Recording Skype? Why would you need to record the speaker feed and the local microphone?

Koz

I'm using my microphone directly to PC sound card. That's happens when you have a bad or dirty connection in the soundcard. Are you sure you have the microphone plugged all the way in? I had a soundcard and it was difficult to plug the microphone all the way in. If I did not plug it in correctly it...

Denise First Pass sound clip, two messages back, was recorded with two different computers. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PodCast_Studio_WS.jpg You find out quickly that I'm in no danger of taking over anybody's announcing job. The machine on the left played back music, themes, bumpers, interst...

If you need any more informations, just let me know. How about the tea test? Does the problem occur by itself periodically? There is a problem where periodic drive access during recording gets damaged, but we need you to record long enough to see if that's what's happening. You can get into trouble...

The long lost podcast clip test. This is a lashup test between Los Angeles and New Jersey. It's not going well.

If you love the way Skype sounds, use one of the Skype recording packages and get everybody to wear headphones. The Pro version is Pamela Business or Pamela Professional. They will both produce a high quality WAV file, split if you want. You on one channel and the guests on the other. That can help ...