Audacity Forum

And yes, it's perfectly correct that once you have your WAV or MP3, you can delete everything else, AUP, _data Folder, AU files, etc. That's assuming you never want to go back and recut anything. I don't understand how you got so many Project (AUP) files. You know you can cut your whole show on one ...

<<<I'm not sure what your second question is asking.>>> I am. The poster went into the _data folder to get his sound files like everybody else does and can't figure out why they act funny. They act funny because they're not sound files. Sometimes, under certain conditions, some of the files in the _...

I'm just really looking closely at my Mini, and it's set to Line-In, but Audacity is set to Default Input. And it works. Do you have or can simulate one of these: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2453699&cp=&sr=1&origkw=3.5mm+rca&kw=3.5mm+rca&parentPage=searc...

<<<Makes me wonder what kind of machine is required?>>> Yours, but there's something else broken. What was the other software package? The idea is not to hide anything until we fix this. I also didn't see the magic words, "I defragmented my hard drive and everything is OK now." Koz

You stumped the band. Unless one of the other posters has heard of it, you may be out of luck. Wikipedia's never heard of it and the only Google hits I get are people asking exactly the same question you did. I'm surprised it ever worked in Audacity. The program is not usually very foreign format fr...

Another direction. Rereading the first post. Most PC laptops only have microphone level inputs. I'm assuming from your slightly odd sentence that you have all three audio connections on your laptop; Line-In, Mic-In, and Headphone-Out (or Line-Out). Is that correct? Or do you only have the usual two;...

<<<Then plugged in the headphones to hear the vocal while I added a wood flute accompaniment.>>> What happens if you turn playthrough (listen while you record) off and then record a random flute performance as a second track? I bet it starts working. Your computer may not have enough moxie to play a...

Wait a minute. You're on a PC. Open Windows Sound Recorder and see if that works any better.

Windows Sound Recorder
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Entertainment

Koz

<<<Audacity used to work on my computer (Windows XP) with no problems.>>>

Do the story-telling thing. "One morning, I started the computer like I always do...."

Koz

<<<for about 2 minutes, then the whole thing goes and stays all jumbled (out of synch??). >>> I ripped your sound clip apart and I can tell you that the above isn't true. The clip is always distorted and it get vastly worse at two minutes. I put much chocolate on a bad sound card or digitizer. You m...