Audacity Forum

<<<Best of luck.>>> Indeed. And on the other computer? Remember this happened to the same person on two different computers. What's wrong with this picture? I never got an answer to "what did you bring with you between the old computer and the new?" Video card, network card, sound card? Di...

Plays fine in Los Angeles. Perfectly well behaved WAV file just short of two seconds long.

No there aren't any girls here, they all went home.

Koz

<<<The problem has also followed me onto a newer, faster computer about a year and a half ago, with a complete re-install of all software including Windows.>>>

What did you bring with you from the old computer to the new?

Koz

Here's a very simple AUP file I made from a piano solo... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg It's a graphic and I put extra spaces and blank lines in to make it look pretty. Count down about seven lines and you will see my piano2.wav file listed along with the digital pathway of how to get ther...

<<<Surely I am not the only person in the world that this has happened to. >>> I'm going with yes. <<<And as I said, I have had this problem since the beginning with Audacity 1.2.6, and when I upgraded to 1.3.9 about half a year ago, nothing changed. The problem has also followed me onto a newer, fa...

Any idea why it's possible to select both hardware and software playthrough?

Koz

<<<I'm working with Mac OS 10.5.8 and Audacity 1.3.7>>>

By the way, you posted in the Audacity 1.2 forum. I hope you really are using Audacity 1.3.7 on your machine. That combination is stable. That's what I use on two of the Macs.

Koz

<<<Didn't see any pattern to the missing sections or cause. I'd just replace them and keep editing. >>> How? How did you replace them? Unless you changed it, Audacity doesn't pull music inside itself for editing. Audacity uses the AUP file as a laundry list or road map to find other files on your co...

Audacity keeps its personality in a Preferences System. On Windows Audacity 1.2 (only) that information is held in the Dreaded Windows Registry. All the rest of the versions and platforms, it's held in a file you can easily manage. Try removing Audacity with the Windows Add/Remove programs and then ...

I'm with him. Sound cards on PCs are designed to work well with Skype and other VOIP systems. They tend to restrict quiet sounds to eliminate echos. Most times you can turn that off.

Koz