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frotz wrote:3.0.2 as installed from APT.

That may well be the problem. WxWidgets 3.x is not yet supported and there are many bugs when building with version 3.
The required version is 2.8 http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Devel ... requisites

frotz wrote:When I added a label to a section of audio and hit play, Audacity produced an error dialog and/or crash altogether a couple seconds later

I'm not able to reproduce that problem.

Which version of WxWidgets have you used?

I'm running Audacity 2.1.0 built from tarball, running on Debian 8 (jessie), and using JACK. Configuration command line was "./configure --with-ffmpeg=local" because trying to compile with the distro-provided ffmpeg fails with lots of errors (please fix that). Unfortunately, FFmpeg change...

1) Choose the Windows WASAPI Audio Host 2) Select the (loopback) input in the Recording Device box. Choose the loopback input for the computer playback device you will be listening to (for example, "Speakers (loopback)" ). 3) Ensure that the "recording channels" is set to "2...

You probably can't remove the vocal entirely, but you can reduce the level of the vocal quite substantially using the "Vocal Remover" effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocal_remover.html The English version seems to work a bit better than the Japanese version. Here is an extract...

What options are available in the "record" options of the device toolbar and which option is selected?

Topic moved to the "Feedback" section. GRIPE 1: The Effect menu list is so long (40+ items) that it extends below the edge of my screen AND THERE IS NO SCROLLBAR! :o So it was taking quite a while to step down the list to those at the bottom. HOW ABOUT A SCROLL BAR, GUYS? No need to SHOUT....

geoldr wrote:I have not tried the WASAPI method, and I am Googling to try and figure out how to do that. Any suggestions?

Just a little down this page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

Sorry but you are wrong about that, Steve, as I wrote in the bug report. Take a look in Windows Task Manager in the "Processes" tab after executing 2.0.5 a second time - there is still only one "audacity.exe". No need to be sorry ;) As I wrote in the same bug report the "ev...

The LAME download site was down earlier today. It's back up now.
See the instructions here for downloading and installing LAME: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#lame