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Make sure Snap To is not selected in the lower part of the edit window.

Koz

You might try playing this track to determine where the reversal is happening.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav

Koz

Which QuickTime do you have? QuickTime > About?

Right-Click one of the files > Open With > QuickTime Player > Command-I (info). What does that say?

Koz

The "show" isn't in stereo is it? If it is, you may be able to use one of the voice management tools that can pick out a particular direction left to right in the stereo field. Play the work and if you have two bouncing sound meters, see if they're different over the course of the show. If...

We'll add "Diesel" to the list of things we can't fix. The tools all work by recognizing sounds and being able to separate them from the voices in the show. If the show is almost 100% trash, then the tools have no other alternative than to remove 100% of the show -- including voices. The t...

If you hang a new message from the bottom of an old thread, we'll never find it. Start a new thread.
Koz

You do have an odd collection of symptoms. Audacity should not do that without crashing or doing something else very naughty. My natural reaction is to inquire whether you are running out of hard drive space and when was the last time you defragmented your drive. No version of Audacity will run prop...

I'm arranging for transfer off-line.
Koz

Vocal Removal in Audacity 1.3.13 has some settings you can try. Vocal Removal in Audacity 1.2 either worked or it didn't. Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported, patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers. Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 fr...

That happens when a producer adds stereo echo to a singer to make them sound better. It's very common ... and permanent. Another failure mode is MP3 and other types of compression. MP3 sometimes scrambles stereo imaging and that kills Vocal Removal. Even when you make a perfect WAV sound track like ...