Audacity Forum

Is your computer filling up? Do a properties on your hard drives and see. No production hard drive should be over 90% full. You should defrag your drives, too. Audacity has a really hard time recording music on a badly fragmented drive.

Koz

These are the three software packages that might help. Center Pan Remover (Voice Remover--Search the page for "Center Pan Remover") http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins Voice Isolator (Opposite of Center Pan Remover) Voice Trap http://www.cloneensemble.com/vt_main.htm Extra Boy ...

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Good luck.

Koz

Audacity wakes up from first birthday in Mono. Reset in Audacity Preferences.

Koz

<<<I am a criminal defense lawyer trying to play a "WAV" recording made from a local police video & 911 tape.>>>

You can open up the WAV file in Audacity, right? Do you get the bouncing green sound meters when you play the file?

Koz

It is a stunningly bad idea to post your email address on a public bulletin board. I have removed it. Your email service will vanish under a ton of junk mail. I will put it back if you want me to, but let's see if we can resolve this without it.

Koz

That's a Dynamic Link Library. Windows understands that just sitting there. The instructions should have told you where to put it so Audacity and Windows can find it.

Koz

Audacity only understands three or four sound formats; OGG, AIFF, WAV, and MP3. If you apply a foreign sound file, like MPa, MP4, or ACC, Audacity will try to play it and make a mess. You need to make your sound files into one of those that Audacity understands.

Koz

<<<I bought a 2 cable RCA to an 1/8" cable from circuit city, plugged the RCA into master out, then plugged the 1/8" into my Headphone jack (also tried mic, doesn't work).>>> First, we have no Mic-In. We have Line-Out (Headphones) and Line-In. The Line-In connection should work for you bec...

<<<How can I save this valuable recording? >>> I don't think you do. The temporary sound files are wherever you told Audacity to put them when you installed the program. Mine is /tmp/audacity1.2-koz which is the directory above /Applications and /Users. You need Terminal or remote login to see it. H...