Audacity Forum

Steve: good searching! Duckduckgo does not list that page. Humanguy: As far as we can tell you are the only person in the world with this problem. It seems to be cosmetic (doesn't affect operation), and seems to be an artifact of running Audacity 2.4.2 on Sierra. Audacity 2.4.2 does not officially s...

Default behaviour of the Record button is now append-record.

If you want to change that to 'record on a new track' go to Recording Preferences and check "Record on a new track".

Or hold the shift key while you click the record button, or do Shift+R to begin recording.

-- Bill

Just drag them into the Trash. Re-installing Audacity will not get rid of them.
-- Bill

What is the project's sample rate ?

Do all the tracks have the same sample rate, and are they the same as the project sample rate?

-- Bill

OK, so you're recording from the turntable, the input setting is USB Audio CODEC. You click on the recording meter to monitor, and you hear something before you put the needle down, right? You're hearing the turntable, not the Mac's internal microphone, right? After recording you play it back and he...

What are your settings in the Device toolbar?
-- Bill

What do you mean by "background volume"? What are your settings in the Device toolbar?

-- Bill

If you're running the latest Audacity (2.4.2) you can click on the recording level meter (where it says 'Click to Start Monitoring') to monitor the sound before you start recording.

-- Bill

Check the Transport > Transport Options menu and make sure that Sound Activated Recording is not checked.

-- Bill

I'd try Tools > Reset Configuration. This will reset the theme from Dark to Light (and reset many other preferences), but that's easy to remedy.

-- Bill