Audacity Forum

Topic moved to the Windows help forum.

markywebby2018 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:18 pm

However, when I mute tracks or even delete tracks they do not play correctly.

What exactly does that mean? (if a track is muted or deleted, I'd not expect it to play at all )

I'd suggest that for now, make regular backups of your work (in particular, after recording, export a backup as a WAV or FLAC file before doing anything else).

I'm guessing that your computer is very old. Does it support SSE2?

cablehead wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 21, 2018 7:37 pm

the software will;
wait until sound is below a db level (as opposed to above), auto save each station uniquely .

Audacity can't do that.

You could record the whole thing, then delete the parts that you don't want, otherwise I think you need to look for different software.

Try rebooting the computer.

(I've moved this topic to the Windows support section of the forum)

If you open the "Sound" preferences, do you see an input level from the cassette player in the "Input" tab?

Has this been a one-off problem, or has it happened again since?

Psikes wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 20, 2018 7:04 pm

Any ideas of what is going on?

From the lack of replies, I guess the answer to that is that no-one knows.
Have you made any progress with this?

My computer was being really slow so I saved my project as a project file and restarted my computer. I attempt to open it back up to resume working on it got the computer telling me to use the File>open command even though that was what I was doing. I suspect the problem is that your computer was r...

Without a lot more information it is not possible to help you.

rayalva wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 18, 2018 6:32 am

several large 10 seconds portions just are silent.

Why is that? What are you recording? What equipment are you using? Which version of Mac OSX, Which version of Audacity?