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"In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density." Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise We can see why your generated "white noise" sounds different from Audacity's white ...

Right. It won't. The Nyquist limit is half the sample rate. Aliasing is "false" lower frequencies that are created if you don't filter before downsampling. Exactly so. Example, If you generate a sine tone at 5 kHz and resample to 8 kHz, the Nyquist frequency is 4 kHz. "Proper" r...

There's some possible fixes in this topic: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/desktop-icons-moving-on-their-own.1196837/ I don't know if this also applies to Windows 8, but it looks like a good possibility: If using windows 7 right click on the desktop go into personalize, click on change desk ...

Leterel wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:07 am

So we know that like 20% of users experience this and 80% of users don't experience this

Do we?
How do we know that it not more like 0.0001% of users that experience this and 99.9999% of users don't?

When you try recording something, do you see any signal on the recording meter? (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/met ... #recording)

In Audacity 2-3-2 on Windows 8 that code just speeds it up. It doesn't "only" speed it up. It resamples the selected audio to 8 kHz, and returns the audio to the track. It does NOT change the Audacity track which is still set to 44.1 kHz. Because there are less samples in the returned aud...

What are your settings in the device toolbar?

and which version of Audacity? (look in "Audacity menu > About Audacity")

Check the "sample rate" settings for your sound card / audio interface, and ensure they are set at 44100 Hz for both playback and recording.

WAV and AIFF are the common ones. Why are you asking?