Audacity Forum

Are you saying that your Audacity projects are created and stored on the external drive? If so then this could be the cause of your problem. External disks are rarely fast enough to keep up with recording. You should really have the projects on the C: drive. You can then when it comes to exporting ...

Thanks Koz. Seeing as the computer I'm using is ancient (1 Gb. 1.8 Ghz P3, Win XP SP3), should I have any problems using 1.3? I am saving all the music to a new 2 Tb external drive. Audacity resides on the C: drive, which last I checked has around 30% free space. As I noted in my previous post, whic...

Okay, so I just listened to a song where the "blips" as I call them are especially noticeable. The song is "King of Pain" by The Police. I noted the run time every time I heard a blip. Here is what I wrote: 1:22, 2:22, 3:22, 4:22 Hmm... I seem to see a pattern here. The blips occur at one-minute int...

Yes, the problem occurs a number of times in each song. I am using an old school turntable connected through an old-school receiver, which is connected to the input jack on the computer.

Thanks, Bill. I am using 1.2.

I am using Audacity on a WinXP SP3 machine to digitize LPs. I am finding that songs have a tiny (e.g., fraction of a second) section that are cut out of the recording. There isn't a silent gap where the music should be; rather, it is as though Audacity cuts the small piece out, then "glues" the two ...