Audacity Forum

I am asking why does 2.3.3 take 20 seconds each time a music file is set to be played to load?
Audacity is on screen but it does not show the upper buttons for 20 seconds.
Hope i have made my question clear.

Since it looks like a windows 10 problem, this support site might help you.
https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/

Have tried both on all my Win 10 computers for digital music files, and the old unsupported 1.3 loads much faster and makes adjusting the sound simpler. Am sure for others using the 2.3.3 is great for what ever they are using it for, but for my simple playing my digital files i used Audacity to get ...

Yes that was very helpful, will takeme some time to fully understand it's use.
And again thank you for the quick replies and your deep understanding of how the software works.

I tried using your input on my newest computer recording of files went correctly, in playing the file back using my computer speakers and then my head phones, sound was correct and did have control of level of sound from speaker icon on screen. Is there a simple to switch the recorded tracks i play?...

I thank you for your reply and direction as to the usb input,another problem i have with one computer is i don't have any control of level of sound the speaker icon on screen won't allow changing.

Thank you again for your replies, since my first try at using the software i have found that the computers are not really as slow to loading as i first thought, any slowness might be that two of my systems are pretty old computers one is a newer one. Now about the sound problem, i needed to set inpu...

I did as you said is there a reason to reset preferences? the program still loads slow and is running my music file but there is no sound, i have to mess with speakers changing them a few time then the sound starts.

Thank you for the quick reply i did get my download from the correct place, and thanks for the information about installing new software.

I obtained a device that came with a small audacity disk that installed a beta copy of the audacity software. This was installed on one of my windows 10 computers, and it does work, on another windows 10 computer the disk would not accept the disk so i downloaded the latest copy of audacity software...