Audacity Forum

I assume that you are logged in to the computer as djspe?

Do you get the same problem if you try to export as WAV?
How much free space is there in "Documents"?

What is the full name of the file that you are trying to save (including the full directory path)?

In the device toolbar, try setting the recording device to:
HDA Intel PCH: ALC3239 Analog (hw:0,0)

and the playback device to:
dmix

The recording date is not added by Audacity. You can get the date it was saved from the file modification date (on most systems this is available via "right click > file properties"). If you wish to make a record of the recording date, you could add that information to the metadata, but yo...

LAME is required for exporting as MP3. (It's not required for importing MP3, Audacity can do that without any help). The current version of Audacity is 2.3.1 (it's just come out, and it has some important bug fixes, so you should definitely use this version): https://www.audacityteam.org/download/wi...

Assuming that your version of Mint is based on the current LTS version of Ubuntu (Bionic):

1. Uninstall Audacity.
2. Remove the PPA from your sources list.
3. Install Audacity (from the main repository)

Look in the Windows Sound Control Panel and ensure that your recording device is enabled.

My guess is that Audacity is trying to record the HDMI audio instead of the microphone. Check the settings in the device toolbar and ensure that you have the correct recording device selected.

Is the default sound system "Pulse Audio"?

Please post your "Audio Device Info" (from the "Help" menu).

If you need to apply much more than 6dB boost with the Envelope, then you are likely to be running into problems with noise. In cases where you do need make adjustments of more than 6 dB, you can do that by reducing the loud bits rather than boosting the quiet bits, then after rendering the track , ...