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if you want to play from before half way through a selection to the end of the selection, while retaining the selection. There is no other way to do that, Click on the Timeline where you want play to start and swipe across to where you want play to stop. A little less accurate if you are doing it q...

Gale Andrews wrote:I meant you could install MediaInfo from your repository. It's an application that supplies detailed file type information.

It's a useful tool to have. You should be able to install it from either the Software Centre or Synaptic Package Manager (whichever you are more comfortable using).

For the benefit of future users, what fixed it for you?

I don't use Windows, but I guess it depends on your Desktop Theme.
With the default Windows Theme the scrollbars should look similar to the image on the first page of the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/

I am still hesitant to upgrade to the newer version of Audacity No need to be hesitant. If you needed to go back to the old version (which I very much doubt), then the old version is still available and can be installed "over the top" of the current version to "downgrade" back t...

Which slider? Which version of Audacity? Which operating system?

The ASIO driver has been installed That will not help because Audacity does not ship with support for ASIO. Although I'm recording into both channels of the interface, I end up with both channels on the same track in mono. Ensure that the device is set to record in stereo in the Windows Sound Contr...

MichloIW wrote:I'm not sure why you are saying it is quiet.

If someone is going to work on this then may I suggest that this be an option that can be set to be on by default. As far as I'm aware there are no plans to make this a built in feature, though your suggestion will be logged. To record from the command line, you may be better to use a command-line ...

anthonyl wrote:Are there any downsides to using the 32 bit float format?

File size.
32 bit float requires double the disk space of 16 bit.