Audacity Forum

What settings are you using in the device toolbar?

When you start the recording, allow it to run until the screen scrolls before you switch to the game on top. Does that make any difference?

MP3 format is unsuitable for seamless loops. It's a limitation of the format that there is always a little leading silence. Use a different file format such as WAV or Ogg Vorbis.

I assume that you were recording directly to the flash drive?

Attach the ".aup" file to your reply and we can look to see if recovery is possible.
(See here for how to attach a file to a forum post: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936)

When using Normalize in a Chain for batch processing, each processed file is normalized so that its peak level is the specified level.
(in later versions of Audacity, "Chains" have been renamed as "Macros")

The best way is to use a player that supports "ReplayGain". See: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain
Several audio players for Linux support ReplayGain, including Rhythmbox.

The recording quality is too bad to recover a good recording.
What is the recording? Can you record it again?

If you make a Desktop shortcut to Audacity, you can drag an audio file onto the Audacity icon.

It's one effect at a time, though you can create a "Macro" to automatically apply effects one after the other. See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

I've set Latency Compensation to -369, which does seem a very high number Yes, that's high, but all sound cards are different, and USB devices often have higher latency than built-in sound cards. is this a new issue? No. All versions of Audacity have had a latency correction setting (for at least t...