Audacity Forum

Audacity 2.0.4 is very old. The current version is 2.1.1 and is available here: http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows To set the point that you want to play from, just click on the blue wiggly waveform at the point that you want play to start, and click the Play button. The keyboard shortcut ...

You may have inadvertently enabled "Sync-Lock" (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/edit_toolbar.html#link). Ensure that the Sync-Lock button (with the clock icon) is "up". Another possibility is that you are dragging from within a selection that spans both tracks. When dragging...

I very much doubt that Ccleaner will be the problem (unless you have manually configured it to "clean" that location).
You could have a look to see if Eset Smart Security has "quarantined" the files/folders.

dlkramnic wrote: Finale Notepad has no means of exporting audio from the synthesizer,

Please be specific - from which synthesizer? Are you using a synthesizer module external to Finale?
How about: https://www.finalemusic.com/UserManuals ... Files2.htm

Assuming that the project had not been saved at any point: With the project open in Audacity, go to "Edit > Preferences > Directories" to find the directory for Audacity's Temp folder. Now find that folder - it's usually inside a hidden folder, so you will need to enable viewing hidden fol...

Why not just "export" from Finale?

There is "Sound Activated Recording" which pauses the recording when the audio input is below the specified level: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... u.html#sar
There is "Timer Record": http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/timer_record.html

Does the file also appear to be very short in Audacity?

As a start you could try using Audacity's built-in log and wxWidgets functions for writing to it. Near the top of ControlToolBar.cpp, add to the wx includes: #include <wx/datetime.h> Then in ControlToolBar::OnRecord void ControlToolBar::OnRecord(wxCommandEvent &evt) { wxLogMessage(wxT("Reco...

As far as I'm aware, you should be able to import DSS files into Audacity if you install FFmpeg according to the instructions here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown Podomatic downloads are probably MP3 format, in which case you should be able to import t...