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Just so we're clear, the Mic-In on built-in sound card is usually barely OK and not complete garbage. You can get going by turning all that automatic stuff off and then see how it sounds. My sound cards are perfectly usable for casual recording with a very low background hiss or maybe a click here a...

The 100Hz filter I published is copied from the hardware one made by Shure Brothers. http://store.shure.com/store/shure/en_US/pd/productID.104210700 With that one, very few people can tell you did anything, but the rumbling sounds go away. You can start to crawl up in frequency with the HiPass Filte...

These are the crash recovery tools.

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

However, we need to figure out why your machine is misbehaving.

Apple > About This Mac. Read Processor and Version.

Koz

I don't think it's a problem of The Latest Lame like there's an update every week. MP3 dates back to 1989. If the lame you have works (try it on an actual file) then you win. If not, then you need an update or a different one.

Koz

It's true. 32 is the minimum for clear Mono MP3 and 64 for Stereo..... Unless you started with a compressed master. Then the errors add up. Those numbers only work if you start with a clear, stereo, high quality, uncompressed master sound file. MP3 is a delivery format. WAV is a production and editi...

<<<I've been using Audacity for nearly two years>>> And you regularly error check your hard drive, move unused work to a backup drive and defragment at least once a month? Audacity will not work into a badly fragmented hard drive and no program will work into a drive that's almost full. Right-Click ...

A lot of the time, wind noise appears as a very low, throbbing, rumbly sound (In California, Earthquake Sounds). If that's the case, then the high pass filter can suppress all those sounds without affecting the rest of the show. If the wind is high enough, it starts becoming more intrusive as it whi...

Audacity 1.3 is fifteen seconds away from becoming Stable 2.0. You can have 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine as long as you only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open up in 1.2. The two most modern Macs will no longer run 1.2. Far from being "unstable," I use 1.3 for everything...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... references

Koz

Unless normalize appears in the list of things you can do in the Chains multiple recursive activity tool, no. Plus, I think Chains is only available in Audacity 1.3.

Koz