Audacity Forum

I hardly know where to start.

What kind of microphone are you using -- model numbers? Exactly which Audacity and exactly which Windows on what kind of computer?

All you said in the posting is everything is broken. Not much to go on.

Koz

You have been saving an Audacity Project which is an aup Project Manager file coupled tightly to a _data folder with your sound data in it. They travel as a tightly married pair, and neither of them is a sound file. Just the fact that you had trouble "finding" things seems to mean you &quo...

I question it's value.

So do we.
Koz

I think this is the latest crash recovery...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Recovery

Koz

Windows makes self-recording much more difficult in Visa and Win7 than it was earlier. Some Win7 machines can't do it at all because the software is just missing. -- Record Internet http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer_Tool...

Can I separate the 2 tracks so I only have the music? There are no "two tracks." You only have one mixed track. There were originally two tracks and you're trying to get back there. Audacity 1.3 ships with Effects > Vocal Remover. This tool will remove anything in the middle of the stereo...

Sure. Deselect "Playthrough." You'll also need to set your Recording Latency, so each new track lines up with the others.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/overdubb ... bbing.html

Koz

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time except play, record and certain timer functions.
So that would be no.
Koz

How do you know it was an MP3 file? Do you have Windows showing you filename extensions? -- Hidden File Extensions -- Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > [ ] Hide Extensions for Known File Types (deselect) -- Apply (to this folder) or Apply to All Folders -- OK I'm betting your mus...

Do you remember what you were doing when it crashed? How much crashing, did it do? All the way back to BIOS? Audacity crash back to Windows and which Windows? I'd save every once and a while, but suddenly my computer crashed. A point. Did you repeatedly save one Project: mymusic.aup, mymusic.aup, my...