Audacity Forum

As a first thing to try, set the record and playback devices to "default" in the device toolbar.

What is the output of "Help > Audio device info" (copy and paste the full contents of the information box)

Do your old, very large Flac files play correctly to the end?

I rarely use Windows, but I was not aware of any version of Audacity supporting Flac files greater than 2 GB. "MediaInfo" may provide the answer to this mystery.

mrqwerty wrote:any chance it can be louder?

Select it http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... ction.html
and then apply the Amplify effect http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/amplify.html
Note that playback must be stopped (not just paused) to apply effects.

Is the Diamond Extreme Sound 5.1 sound card the only sound card in your computer or do you also have "on board" sound?

Enter the following into a terminal window and copy/paste the output to your reply: (the final character is a lower case "L")

Go into "Help > Audio Device Info"
Wait a few moments for the information to appear, then copy and paste all of the info into your reply.

Let's start with "what works?"
Can you play audio on your computer?
If you import a file into Audacity, does it play correctly?

You will not be able to make the sendspace file sound exactly the same as the YouTube voice. The best you can expect is to make it fit a little better. Am I right in thinking that the SendSpace file is the person's name? If so, the first half needs to be 1 semitone higher than it is now and the seco...

steve wrote:How high is the level on the Behringer 900 meters?

I'm referring to the LED "Level Meter". How high is that going (maximum peak level) while you play the mix?

if you're reasonably sure that building it on MSVC w/64bit extensions will fix it I'm not saying that (just) building with 64 bit extensions will fix the problem, but rather the reverse of that - that 32 bit has an address size of just over 4 billion, so the maximum number of samples that Flac can ...