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Digital audio isn't "continuous". It's actually just a series of discrete numbers (called "samples"). At high zoom levels, these samples are displayed as dots. This has not changed, except that previously the dots were drawn with lines joining each dot to the next. In the current...

You beat me to it. I was about to give you a cryptic clue: "you're getting too confident"

You have discovered why it is so often said that "globals are bad / evil" (not that they are - you just have to be very careful when and where you use them).

I've found the download on the "Audacity to podcast" site, and it appears that they have made a ZIP package on a Mac. When opening the ZIP file, there should be a file called "compress.ny" (no dot at the start of the name), and a folder called "_MACOSX". Ignore the fold...

Ensure that you have the 32-bit version of GSnap.
If you require further help, please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".

Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".

Macatt wrote:"._compress.ny" file

The file name should not begin with a dot. Where did you download the file from?

There's a bug in Audacity 2.2.1 that can lose data from a project if you overwrite the current project using "File menu > Save Project As..." The bug does not occur if you overwrite the current project using "File menu > Save Project", or "Ctrl + S", and it does not occ...

libavformat.55.dylib That's the Mac version of FFmpeg. It wont work on Windows. See here for installing FFmpeg on Windows: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_windows.html#winff See here for installing LAME on Windows: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing...

Sorry but there was a glitch in the forum software when I merged your posts and your uploaded audio sample disappeared. Could you re-upload it. Thanks.

Did you happen to use "Save Project As" to save the project with the same name?

On Linux, Software Playthrough is not normally required because PulseAudio can provide that. "Playthrough" should only be enabled in one place, either in Audacity, or in the sound system (usually Pulse). If both are enabled, they will fight for access to the audio hardware, and Audacity wi...