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there isn't room on your drive or storage Audacity has an internal sound quality format much larger than normal sound files. This is to avoid quality issues when you apply corrections, filters or effects. The down side of that is the storage needed. A Live recording is very large and the instant yo...

You get the Spinning Bea Ball Of Death when the Mac takes longer to complete a task than it thinks it should. That log file may be created when you try to save a Project and there isn't room on your drive or storage. The Project is badly damaged. That's the error you get when the AU files are missin...

If this is a room echo problem, you might try a Kitchen Table Sound Studio.

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Those are cheap and easy to build and although they can't cure all room, house or neighborhood sounds, they are pretty good at killing echoes.

Koz

There is very little in our posted Audiobook Mastering process that can change the quality of your voice. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering You are much more likely to have trouble by reading some healthy and some with a head cold or changing rooms or microphones in the middle o...

ACX posts clear submission requirements. Screen Shot 2019-07-08 at 2.53.44.png https://www.acx.com/help/acx-audio-submission-requirements/201456300 They want all the chapters or sections to match. They hate distractions such as changing voice or rooms in the middle of a book. Making a "Studio&q...

Did you record both of those in the same room? That could be the difference between two rooms, the Mac room has carpeting and drapes and heavy furniture and the Windows room has wood floors and bare walls. That could be the windows machine with voice processing. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/f...

stop the network connection

You may have to Google network management. This is abysmally complicated in Windows.

Koz

As far as you know, do all the rest of your apps work? Have you checked a bunch of them?

Unplug your network (if it's wired) or stop the network connection.

Do a clean shutdown: Shift-Shutdown > Wait > Start.

Don't start or reconnect the network. Will Audacity open now?

Koz

I now have this working.

How? Please report what you did to solve this. This is not a Help Desk. It's a Forum with users helping each other.

Koz

Did you change the work? If you decided to produce in stereo (two tracks) instead of mono, the size of the show will have doubled. You can work in 48000 sample rate instead of the more common 44100. That will throw everything off. Did you nudge the PAN control (L...R) to the left of the timeline by ...