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Try the headset on a different machine. It may be malfunctioning.

NOTE: this particular project is only 5 tracks of audio, yet, the number of .AU files is tremendously high. I have 38 subdirs each with about 255 files totalling just under 10,000 files. Audacity projects are big, particularly while you are working on them. By default the audio data is in high reso...

jaja714 wrote:Audacity did not recognize the type of the file

Change the file extension to ".txt" and post it as an attachment. I'll have a look to see if it looks anything like a proper .autosave file.
Did you say that you had recovered 2 .autosave files? If so, post both of them.

The "awful noise" is electrical interference from inside your computer.
My guess is that your computer is not configured to use the headset mic, but is actually using an internal mic on your laptop, or a web cam mic.

In Audacity, the recording input is set in the device toolbar.

Audacity saves the audio data in randomly numbered "block files" (".AU") The .AU files are stored in a data tree with no more than 100 files per folder. When the project is Saved, the .AUP file holds all the information necessary to reassemble the block files to recreate the proj...

ADA wrote:With just a single track is it possible to remove these effects and clear up the voice somehow?

No it isn't possible.
If you can find the song on iTunes you may be able to look up the "lyrics", but I suspect that it is just "vocal sounds" rather than meaningful "words".

There's a section in the manual about crash recovery that may help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/recovery.html

Use the Equalization effect. That's an FFT filter so it does not have the phase shift issues that the "High Pass" and "Low Pass" effects have.

Does your computer have the curse of "Beats Audio"? If so, then it's very likely that there is either a setting related to that, or the sound card is just too trash to achieve decent performance. If the latter, then you'll need to upgrade the sound card (which need not be very costly).

Please see this FAQ: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... l#language