Audacity Forum

It's possible that the "Preferences" have become messed up. The quickest way to reset Audacity completely to "factory defaults" is to (shut down Audacity if it is running, then) find the hidden folder: "Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\" and delete (or move or ...

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lolo997 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:50 pm

Yes I tried and headphones work fine on other computer, balance is ok

What about on the same computer with a different program (such as Windows Media Player)?

The current version of Audacity is 2.3.0 and is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/
(Audacity 2.3.1 is due to be released soon)

Apply the "Change Speed" effect: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_speed.html
Then Export your modified track.

In that case, open Preferences ("Edit menu > Preferences") and click on the "Recording" tab. Third item from the top, "Record on a new track". That option is not ticked by default. When not ticked, the default behaviour is to append each recording to the end of the same...

HDTOD wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:59 pm

Reading it all in in RAW format worked fine.

Oh good
Thanks for confirming.

As far as I'm aware, Audacity defaults to the last used open/import directory on all platforms.

I've logged the issue on the bug tracker. I don't know if this works on Windows, but I've just tested and it works on Linux. The audio may be recovered from WAV files > 4GB using "Import Raw Data" (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/file_menu_import.html#raw_data). This will add a little ...

This was discussed recently on the developer's mailing list. I think it's agreed that "silently failing" is not helpful.
It does not appear to be currently logged on the Audacity bug tracker, so I'll add it.
Thanks for the feedback.