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I have a joke with the Dutch engineers here that when you speak Dutch, it sounds like pots and pans falling down the stairs.

Koz

You can make your sound file smaller by exporting it in MP3 instead of WAV. Audacity must add 'lame' software to make MP3. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows Make sure your version of Audacity is the correct one for the lame you download. MP3 makes smaller files, but it also makes damage ...

It's hard in Audacity 1.2, but you might try the crash recovery tools.

Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

Koz

<<<Don't use Skype>>> Still, we're getting more and more complaints from people with odd distortion and volume effects in their voice for no good reason. The latest crop of laptops comes with the communications settings already enabled and you have to intentionally turn them off. Sometimes they have...

<<<("original length" - "target length")/"target length">>>

So the number required is a percentage of the target length, not the original length?

Who designed this thing?

Koz

You understand that once you get this overdubbing thing down, nobody is going to be able to stop you from adding a bass and drum track?

And backup vocals....

Koz

The basics are covered. There's no apparent damage from overload or noise, so it's all pretty much musical problems. Getting good balance with one microphone is rough. You want good presence and clarity for the voice and that demands a close shot to the microphone and that usually means a good pop a...

We work in strange ways. If you disconnect your headset, launch Audacity, press record, and still get hum, it's not the headset.

Koz

<<<there is like 2 to 3 second delay before I can hear what is going on.>>> Close. If What's Going On is the original track playing back to you matching up to the combined tracks on the timeline, then you want the Audacity latency settings. Edit > Preferences > Recording > Latency. You can set that ...

I understand. So the deliverable filename would be awesome.ny.

I designed something similar and delivered about a month ago.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 28&t=28341

Note the second post.

Koz