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Do you have all the rest of the tools and filters like this:

That's the voice and conferencing tools, Windows Enhanced Services. I think that's still valid in Windows 8.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... hancements

Koz

It wasn't before.... what?

Oh, it sounded OK when they were on-line.

You may have sound formats that Audacity doesn't recognize. Install the FFMpeg software and that problem may go away.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

Koz

I've been using the MIC Connection.

Which on most computers is mono. Some machines have the ability to "convert" one connection between stereo and mono. Consult your computer instructions. It's impossible for us to guess at it.

Koz

As I recall, the power goes down different wires from the data. It's possible to have one without the other. I have a USB printer cable that only works if I massage its feet with olive oil and feed it vanilla ice cream -- on Thursday. Then it's fine. Otherwise, no printing. I thought it was the comp...

Audacity only looks for USB devices at startup or rescan. It may think there's a device there...

After a failure, rescan. If the device vanishes from the device list, then the connection vanished.

Koz

It's probably recording or creating them too slow. Slow computers drop bits here and there, not enough to cause a fiery crash, but enough to cause a speed change -- always up. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#sync http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Managing_Comp...

Effect > Auto Duck?

That's what it's supposed to do, but I know almost nothing about it.

Koz

Next time it does that, Transport > Rescan Audio Devices. Did it come back? You may need to open the Recording drop-down next to the microphone. If it all comes back, then you may have an erratic USB connection and when the conditions are right, just drops the data connection for a second. If it doe...

Can you get closer? Our Lenovo Thinkpad has three audio connections, Mic-In, Line-In, and Headphones/Line-Out. The Mic-In is mono and sometimes records "stereo" with the same thing on both sides. Line-In (blue??) is full stereo. At the risk of being a little too beginner on you, did you un...