Audacity Forum

In order to move a clip, there has to be sufficient empty space to move the clip into. If the second clip in the second track won't slide to the right, it is probably because there is another audio clip in the way.

stealthtaco wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:59 pm

and I can replace the bad files on the flash drive

It could be the flash drive that is faulty, so if they do give you a download link, ensure that you get a good download on your hard drive and "copy" (rather than "move") the files to the flash drive.

when using the MacBook Air I can not use 8000 HZ for playback Sound cards generally support a small range of standard sample rates, but they do not always support the sample rates that they say they do. What is supposed to happen if the sample rate that is played is not supported by the hardware is...

Probably best to look for a specialist "game recorder" application. General purpose audio recorders such as Audacity are not really suitable for recording games (though "may" work with "some" games).

I expect that the reason there has been no reply until now is because no-one else has this problem. Are you still seeing this problem?

Don't use alpha versions of software unless you are an expert.

The current version of Audacity for Windows / macOS is Audacity 2.3.0 and is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

Ensure that you get the current release version of Audacity via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
Ensure that your anti-virus is fully up to date.

Using a Yahama MG10 mixer to record into an HP Pavilion running Windows 10 and Audacity 2.1.2. Audacity 2.1.2 is very old. The current version is 2.3.0 (Audacity 2.3.1 is due to be released in January). You can get the current version via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/...

xpac5896A wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 27, 2018 2:42 pm

Could it be that Dragon Natural Speaking is the problem?

Yes it could be that Dragon Natural Speaking is grabbing exclusive access to the recording device.
Try shutting down Dragon Natural Speaking completely (so that it is not running in the background) and then try a test recording.

The computer may have turned into pause while I was recording Do you mean that the computer went to sleep / hibernation? If the hard drive powered down, then that would prevent the data from being written to disk. Check your power saving settings and ensure that the computer does not go to sleep wh...