Audacity Forum

Are you using Audacity 2.0.5? Help > About (I think). Which Windows do you have? When was the last time you did an exhaustive virus check? Not the one that runs conveniently in the background while you're working, I mean the one where you have to stop using your computer for an hour. How full is you...

Memory modules need to precisely match. Memory locations are addressed at blinding speed and having a bank slightly off is very ungood.
Koz

A simple a/v sync would not work here as the gaps have been removed throughout the audio track. How about a simple reshoot? Having tiny gaps in the audio all over the show is no different from having the microphone fail four minutes before the end of the show. There's portions of the show sound tha...

You may have a bad memory block. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.09.utilityspotlight.aspx It's a time bomb and may also show up when you do other memory-intensive activities. Machines used to do a memory test when they started, but nobody wanted to wait, so it's commonly bypassed. Y...

please excuse any oversights or lack of etiquette... We're not particularly delicate -- or bashful. That behavior is normally a "Snap-To" problem, but your screen shots show Snap-To not selected. You can zoom into the area in question and make it easier to see what you're doing. Drag-sele...

Effect > Sliding Time Scale/Sliding Pitch.
Koz

What, exactly, are you recording? What's the show? Can you make it worse? Sometimes gazing too closely at the problem isn't valuable. Run a million applications and fill the machine up. Does a recording still start cracking at the same place? What assurance do you have that the show doesn't start cr...

Describe the microphone in detail. If it's a specialty, one-off, extremely complex microphone part of a larger system, it might not appear on the Audacity list of sound devices. It may not even qualify as a sound device.

Koz

Carefully save your project. Select all tracks by clicking above each MUTE button with the SHIFT key down. Effect > Amplify: -6 (top number) > OK. Turn your sound system up to make up the difference. Did the cracking go away? If it went way down but didn't quite vanish, reduce the overall show anoth...

Audacity is a really simple editor and doesn't "know" what it's doing most of the time. It can't tell where the beginning and ends of words are by "speaking" English. The only way it would know what's going on is possibly silent sensing a conversation and that would only work at ...