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Koz

Thanks again for your help on this.

I don't know that we've been a lot of help. You have impossible symptoms. Can we share one of those files? Send me a Private Message. Click on my name and Send Private Message. Koz

So it is nothing to do with hidden file extensions.

Yes it does.

When you're lost or confused, the worse thing you can do is let Windows hide things from you. Default Windows will show you Music.8.wav and Music.8 as the same file name -- but one them will be mysteriously broken.

Koz

I think the first thing you should do is force Windows to show you File Extensions so you have some idea what's really going on. -- Hidden File Extensions -- Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > [ ] Hide Extensions for Known File Types (deselect) -- Apply (to this folder) or Apply t...

I bet if you export those files and play them on the other computer, they're fine. That would be good to check.

Koz

It's very common for newbies to save their editing changes to the original file and have hours -- or days -- worth of work under one Project. Much better to save progressive different Projects, so if you lose one, you can just open up the last one and you've only lost an hour or so of work. 02DEC153...

Microphone inputs are the most quiet connected to a microphone they are expecting. Impedance match, thermal noise currents, etc. etc are all their lowest. If you have a microphone amplifier with no microphone, it will generate significant noise. That's why it's important to keep loafing microphone a...

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I'm not at a machine where I can listen to the show, but high noise level is very evil. If the Noise Reduction software in Audacity works, the actor may sound like they are underwater. I will listen later.

Kozikowski
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You can do it in Audacity. Import the track into Audacity 1.3. Audacity Preferences > Recording. Select 'Play a track while recording...', and de-select software playthrough and hardware playthrough if you have both. Restart Audacity. Press Record and the system should play the original track and le...

If you import two different sound tracks into Audacity, they will arrive on two different timelines one above the other. You can then use the Time Shift Tool (sideways black arrows) to force one of them later than the other. You can then use the Envelope Tool (white arrows and bent blue line) to fad...