Audacity Forum

A split second plays, or the whole song goes by in a split second? You should upgrade to Audacity 1.3.. 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 from here... http://...

You almost told us what kind of microphone you have and how it's connected. Which Audacity exactly, which computer and what operating system?

You posted in a part of the forum that doesn't ell us anything and we're going to ask you all this stuff anyway.

Koz

Missed one. Which Audacity exactly do you have?
Koz

Do you like to put dates in your filenames? I wouldn't do that. 20110519. That's today's date, not 5/19/11. The slashmarks might screw up Windows file structure. When was the last time you restarted your machine from power off -- pull the plug? Sudden Computer Insanity can also be cause by your hard...

Storage should be on two "things." No more and no less. Internal Drive and External drive, External Drive and Thumb Drive. External Drive and Data CD/ Data DVD/ Data BluRay. If you clear off your internal drive (highly recommended -- then defragment) then you're short one device. Add a thu...

You may be the victim of Windows Conferencing Services. Out of the box Windows tries to manage sound to make a multi-person video or audio conference come out right. That can kill you when you're trying to record theatrical presentations. Windows Enhanced Sound http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopi...

How full is your hard drive? Start > My Computer > C: > Properties. This is the symptom of a machine either running out of hard drive room or with a hard drive that is fragmented. Or both. My Computer > C: > Properties > Tools > Error Check and Defragment. If the defragment display is mostly red, th...

I remember it was well used when my dominant computer was Windows.
Koz

We recently moved the company to a much nicer building, but the old one had some interesting attributes. There was a center, three-story atrium that had some terrific "cathedral" echoes. The problem was the building air conditioning never went off and it was the dominant noise in that area...

If this continues to not work, you need to upgrade your Audacity. 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 from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can ins...