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Waaaaay down at the bottom of your operating windows, turn "Snap-To" off. Or turn it on, restart Audacity, turn it off and restart Audacity again. If it's stuck after that, it could be more serious.

Koz

I think I need to lie down for a minute.
Koz

You probably have the Audacity MP3 preferences set for too low a quality. Edit > Preferences > File Formats > MP3. Select a bitrate of 192 or 224. That may get you a much larger sound file than you have been getting. The quality and filesizes go up and down in opposition to each other. Keep changing...

<<<I have a similar problem>>> Similar, but not the same. His dropped dead, yours drops dead when it feels like it. We would just as soon you not piggyback on somebody else's question but start a new one. Now we have to split the answers between you. Ned should still go into the Windows Control Pane...

The desperation method is a cable between the headphone out of the recorder and the Line-In of your computer. If you have no Line-In, you have no desperation method. The Mic-In on laptops doesn't work all that well. Investigate 'Super' or 'Switch'. Two downloaded sound conversion programs. What did ...

You posted in the Audacity 1.2 forum so you had me going there for a second. All the moons and stars have to line up for you to use an external digital microphone. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input Select the new microphone and make sure the sound meter jumps when you talk into t...

Hang one. Let me inquire.
Koz

There are crash recovery tools... Crash Recovery http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery ...but you may have much more serious problems. <<<big file on my Fujitsu Vista portable>>> How big? <<<Windows is shutting down. >>> That's extraordinarily serious. You need to figure out how...

Yes, but that's working a little too hard. You can use the envelope tool to manipulate one track with reference to another. That's the bent blue line just to the right of the I-Beam tool in the tool cluster upper left. Pull the rubber band down in the areas you want muted. This tool has the advantag...

It sounds like a bad capture of a cheap microphone in an echoey kitchen. Parts of it overload which could be the problem your speakers have. Hard to fix that. If you reduce the level, you'll just get quieter distortion. "I" and "Take" are into digital clipping. It sounds like a r...