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jmustin wrote:I am trying to remove or hide vocals from a few songs

In what way "remove or hide"? Do you want to "bleep out" some words, or are you trying to make a karaoke track, or do something else?

A human voice is comprised of a broad range of complex frequency patterns. I think what you are wanting to do is to try and isolate the dominant frequency bands, which means silencing all of the "lesser" frequencies. To do this completely is difficult, but you can sometimes get close to th...

What happens at 44100 Hz sample rate?
Which exact version of Audacity are you using? (look in "Help > About Audacity")
Which version of Windows?
What are you trying to record and what equipment are you using (make + model number where possible).

That's a good example of why this isn't very intuitive, IMO. I would have (logically) thought that the click at the selection edge would set the centre frequency That's not what happens now. What happens now is: When the pointer is close to the left or right edge of a spectral selection, the pointe...

Or more correctly, it will be a time selection with a spectral selection inside it Conceptually a "spectral" selection is a selection in both the time and frequency domains. in terms of our current "rectangle" implementation, a "spectral" selection is a "time"...

I am not clear whether you prefer repurposing Draw Tool or a new F7 Spectral Selection Tool. My preference would be for a new "spectral selection tool", though I would find repurposing the Draw tool to be preferable to what we have now if there is strong opposition to adding a new tool. I...

When I Export Audio and select Save as type: Other Compressed Files > Header: WAV > Encoding: U-Law the file that is created is an .AIFF files. It's a known bug. To work around the issue, when you enter the name of the file, type it with ".wav" at the end of the name. Example: Rather than...

Which source code are you using?
Did WxWidgets build successfully, and have you successfully built any of the sample/demo applications to confirm that it is working correctly?
Which version of WxWidgets did you build?

Is the problem repeatable?
Is there an exact sequence of steps, starting from rebooting your computer, that will reliably reproduce the problem? If so, please describe those steps, in sufficient detail that we can exactly copy what you are doing.

When it happens, you could try "Rescan audio devices" (in the Transport menu) to see if Audacity is able to reconnect to the device. You could also try the current 2.1.2 version of Audacity: http://www.audacity.audio/download/windows/ this problem has only started in the past couple days I...