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Clip Fix version 4 appears to have an attempt at avoiding this overload in the processed waveform, but it goes way too far. Clip Fix will either do nothing (if no clipping is detected), or will increase the peak amplitude. Clipping occurs when the signal level exceeds the maximum level that can be ...

I tried to look into FAQ but the box for "Software playthrough" that should control this was not checked Good, that was the right thing to do first. Windows also has its own "software playthrough" type setting, which is located somewhere in the Windows Sound Control Panel (sorry...

Unfortunately it is a bug. http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534 I have added a note that it also occurs on Arch Linux XFCE, and suggested that it should be given higher priority as it makes the track pan and track gain sliders almost unusable. The workaround is to double click on th...

The names of devices can be difficult to interpret. Audacity gets the names of devices from Windows, and Windows guesses the names of devices from the device drivers. Also, instructions that come with USB cassette players are often out of date, as is the Audacity software that they include. You shou...

"Timeline actions" are things such as "Timeline Quick Play" (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html#tqp) and the Timeline right-click menu. These actions are disabled during recording so as to prevent accidentally aborting the recording.

Michael Kazmierski wrote:The plugin appears, but when I run it, it says Nyquist did not return audio.

Try running the effect using the Debug button rather than the OK button.
What does it say in the debug window?

In the file "audacity.cfg": What is the Q drive that you are trying to open files from?

remember something about the effect having to insert latency so it could be applied. The bug that you are referring to affects the preview of some third party plug-ins. It does not affect how the effect is applied, and does not affect any of the effects that are shipped with Audacity. It also does ...

Michael Kazmierski wrote: it makes no sense at all for a plugin to insert unwanted silence and latency which might not be corrected

What are you referring to?

We're wondering why a million people are running Audacity 2.1.3 on Windows 10 and not getting this problem, but for one person (yourself) the problem is apparently unavoidable. What's different about your set-up? We're missing something. Did you download Audacity via this Audacity web site: http://w...