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Ok. I recorded a 90 minute audio cassette into Audacity. I am being told by Audacity that the recording is 1 hour & 45 minutes long. How can this be? The cassette is 90 minutes. 1 hour & 45 minutes equals 105 minutes. How can this be? :o What happens when you play the track in Audacity?

As I understand it, the 'normalize' function sets the amplitude of the loudest peak to a level that will not clip By default, Normalize amplifies the selected audio so that the peak level is -1.0 dB (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/normalize.html) Audio will clip at 0 dB*, so by default the No...

Does Windows Media Player work?

If it does, check to see what playback device it is using:
In Windows Media Player 11 and 12 on Windows 7, "Tools > Options > Devices > Speakers > Properties".

I am attaching two samples for your review. Windows XP machine sounds like we want. The Windows 7 machine sounds weird. Windowss XP is running Audacity 1.2.6 and was recorded using a Plantronics headset with mic. Windows 7 is running Audacity 2.0.6 and a Blue Snowball microphone was used. I am not ...

Tried Microsoft sound mapper as suggested. Still no playback. In that case, it must be the computer sound system settings (because that's what the "sound mapper" settings use). Open the Windows Sound Control Panel and look to see what the default playback device is (on the "playback&...

According to the release notes : M4A (AAC) exports: The Quality Slider in "Specify AAC Options" has no effect if the FFmpeg library is built with the libvo-aac encoder, as are recommended builds of FFmpeg for Windows and Mac OS X. Workaround: Given the alternative AAC encoders for FFmpeg h...

Why has the original track got such a sharp cut-off around 16 kHz? Had it already been compressed in a lossy format?

Dr. Righteous wrote:This effect should be included with Audacity.

Feel free to suggest that here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=20

Try setting (in the device toolbar)

Host: MME
Recording device: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input
Playback device: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output

You're welcome. I look forward to seeing some plug-ins from you in due course, but if you get stuck, feel free to ask questions