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Little more information. Why is it called it Track 1? Would it happen to be Track 01? Did you get this work from a Music CD? You have to rip the Music CD with a Music CD ripper program (in Windows CDex) and then rename the file in post production. You can't just copy music from a Music CD. It's in a...

Audacity is a slave to the computer running it. In the case of Windows, you need to select the recording device in Windows Control Panels first.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz

Do you have a phonograph record with noise?

Skip the first message in this thread or read it later. The following messages have good simple information for cleaning the sound.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 26&start=0

Koz

resulting files have a lot of interference/noise on them. I know what I was missing from this. Where did the music come from? We have the middle and end of the movie, but not the beginning. If you have very low level music, you could be hearing the tiny dithering signal that's added to standards co...

>>Current Time is where you are in the song
Strange thing to save. But who am I to argue?

It's not saved. It updates while you play the file. If you pause the playback, it will give you a very accurate idea how many seconds and fractions you've played so far.

Koz

Two possibilities. If you have an analog service and you're plugged into the Mic-In of your Windows Laptop computer, you lose. The Mic-In is a mono service and if you plug in stereo by accident, you only get Left -- if it works at all. The other possibility is you're using an older Audacity. Audacit...

That worked. Firefox on a MacBook, Control-Click > View Image.

Koz

Masterful detective work!

Koz

You shouldn't...

You're a performing musician and much more likely to know. Isn't E one of your natural strings?

...not as a "solution" to the problem....

What is? Have we identified the problem enough to offer a packaged solution? Christmas Cometh.

Koz

If it's any consolation to you, Audacity 1.3 is the correct process. Audacity 1.2 was a too-simple, patch job.

Koz