Audacity Forum

Just to close this out... I disabled software playthrough, disabled the meter toolbar, and zoomed out to 50 minutes (typical length of an album). Then I recorded 5 albums, restarting Audacity for each album (but not rebooting the computer). The first three albums recorded fine; the last 2 suffered f...

Thanks again. It will take me a while to work through all the possibilities, because sometimes I am still able to record an entire album without any anomalies, and other times I get lots of anomalies. It seems fairly random. So if I try a system optimization and successfully record an album with no ...

Hi Gale -- Thanks for the reply. I'm using the mixing board to reduce the gain so that the signal doesn't overdrive my laptop's input. I understand laptops aren't ideal for this task, but mine is fairly beefy as laptops go (Dell XPS 1730M). I do have a couple large dektop options I could try, includ...

Additional info: Audacity version string is "1.3.13-beta (Unicode)". There is no date. I hear the anomaly immediately during recording, if I have software playback enabled. It always sounds like a pop during recording. However, as I said, the anomalies aren't always the same. The one I posted above ...

Wow, this sounds almost exactly like the problem I recently started to experience. I installed 1.3.13 beta on my Win7 laptop in mid-October 2011 to start ripping my vinyl collection to MP3. I have made it through about 30 albums and Audacity has performed like a champ until just recently. Now I get ...