Audacity Forum

<<<now I can Import & Export using a Chain in Audacity to reduce the bit rate.>>> Or maybe not. It's a better than even chance that the direct MP3 tools work at the native bitrate of the original MP3. Not so Audacity. Audacity pulls work into itself and immediately translates it to very high qua...

The individual components of Chains have to be programmed separate from their more normal versions. If you didn't find the Chain tool you're looking for, chances are it hasn't been programmed yet.

Koz

In short, there are no options. If you pull a music file into Audacity and it isn't happy there, it will play at a funny speed or not play at all. Far better to convert ahead of editing.

Koz

<<<So it went on like "Si,si,si,si,si", 250 times per minute.>>> Are you getting your microphone, clearly and low level instead of the expected show? So you have a completely different problem from the original poster. @cablein You need to go into the Windows Control Panels and make sure i...

It's a setting.

Preferences > Interface > [X] Closing the last window closes audacity.

Koz

I'm fishing for the model and make of the microphone if I missed actually saying that.

Koz

I'm assuming a Windows machine. You posted in a part of the forum that doesn't tell us very much.

Koz

Step one. Use Audacity 1.3.12, not Audacity 1.2. 1.2 is very old and no longer supported. It has very basic tools and doesn't recognize very many sound formats. Audacity is a terrible converter. Make sure all your music is in the same WAV format before you start editing. You can use http://www.fooba...

<<<i used the stealth plug>>>

OK, That's a new one. "Stealth Plug? That may be part of the problem. If the connection isn't normal, Windows may not know its there and reassign the sound to somewhere else.

Koz

At the risk of recoding Audacity, could there be a message: [LOADING PLUGINS]. ...so that when the machine crashes or takes hours to start, there is somewhere concrete to go. A majority of this thread is trying to decide exactly what's wrong. It seems there is no easy solution, so providing informat...