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So are you saying that you don't need help using Audacity?

That all sounds fine.
What are you recording, and what audio device / sound card are you using?

For some problems, an audio sample can be very useful or even essential for diagnosing the cause of the problem. For other problems, other approaches are more helpful. In this case, it would be useful to know if the problem only occurs when you use "loopback", or if the problem occurs when...

Why not listen to the audio samples I provided? I did. It's garbled as you described. I don't know what a "long microphone recording" Recording from a microphone for a long (several hours) duration. Also, it sounds like there are some stability issues with 2.3.1. I don't know of any large...

Audacity has previously not been able to include an MP3 encoder due to US patent restrictions. Those patents have now expired, so the next version of Audacity is able to include Lame as standard, without needing to download anything from third party sites.

Instructions for installing Lame for Audacity: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... ml#winlame

Sorry I don't speak French. Translation by Google. I suspect that you are exporting in WAV format. The WAV format has a maximum size limit of 4 GB. Attempting to export a WAV file that is bigger than 4 GB will result in a truncated audio track. The workarounds are to either (a) Export as multiple sh...

From your description, it sounds like your project would be accomplished better all in Python (not using Audacity at all). The "wave" module may be useful: https://docs.python.org/3/library/wave.html#module-wave Also: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.io.wavfile.re...

Yes, that's one of mine. Glad you liked it