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Is there a way to have the position indicator appear over all tracks when not hovering over the timeline? That cursor line will appear in all "selected tracks", plus the track that has "focus". A "selected track" is indicated by the control panel on the left of the tra...

How can I just select all of the current track without using the mouse? Click on an empty part of the panel on the left end of the track (take care not to accidentally move either of the sliders). Note that the rectangles at the top and bottom of that panel are buttons. More information here: http:...

Topics merged. (Update: looks like someone deleted the duplicate) I posted this question, said differently but was unable to find it There's a link near the top left of the page: "View your posts" I also had no takers with any answers To be notified by email, click the link at the bottom o...

Do you mean arrows like this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/m/images/4/47/track_audio_before_zero.png If so, that indicates that there is audio data in the track before the track start. When recording overdubs (more than one track), this is normal due to "latency correction". (See: http:/...

See this topic: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 20#p267020

It is also rarely the case that I want programs to connect directly to the hardware inputs. When using Jack, the "device" options in the "device toolbar" are not restricted to hardware devices. On that page you can see an example of setting Audacity to connect to Hydrogen drum m...

Monty.McGee wrote:Why would the program take hours

Perhaps you are about to run out of disk space?

Initially I had three MP4 video files and had to get the audio from them - so I used Audacity to do that, which resulted in the three mp3 files that I listed in my original post. Using MP3 as an intermediate format is a bad idea. MP3 encoding always reduces the sound quality, so what you are curren...

Gunns wrote: Error while opening sound device. Please check the recording device settings and the project sample rate.

I have absolutely no idea what that means

It means that there is probably something wrong with your recording settings.

What are you trying to record?
What equipment are you using?

You could record the tracks in much the same way as recording a cassette player with Audacity.
There's a set of tutorials in the manual that cover most aspects of the job: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... to_cd.html