Audacity Forum

While I don't doubt it does that, I wonder about why. I didn't suggest that it made sense ;) From frequent reports on the forum, the usual Windows behaviour on plugging in a USB device would appear to be: 1) Set number of recording channels to 1 (mono). Presumably because Windows is assuming that a...

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Gale Andrews wrote:I made it clearer.

Thanks for that (but it's still crazy)

How to do you record two mics at once? The way that I would recommend is to use two "conventional" (not USB) microphones and either plug them into a 2 channel USB microphone pre-amp, or plug them into a USB mixer, or plug them into a non-USB mixer and plug the mixer into a 2 channel "...

I've not come across it either.
Does it only happen with one particular Audacity project?

Gale Andrews wrote:To prevent a track being exported, it has to be explicitly muted with the Mute button on, not merely greyed out because it is not soloed.

I never realised that. That's crazy

How is it that commercial CDs have track lists that normally read out on the player's screen? What do they use? It depends on the CD and the player. A few years ago Sony had thousands of CDs sent back because they would not play in car CD players. They were non-standard CDs. Not all commercial CDs ...

Ok, so we can see that the alpha version is stalling after setting: TempDir=C:\DOCUME~1\utente\IMPOST~1\Temp\audacity_temp and before setting: [AudioIO] One of the differences between the stable version and the alpha version is that the latter has experimental support for WASAPI and WDM-KS enabled. ...

Ok... i'm goin to watch the .cfg. In the first line it's present this: NewPrefsInitialized=1 Version=2.0.5 PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1 For resetting this i need to set NewPrefs to 0 ?? No. To reset the Audacity preferences you need to delete the entire contents of the audacity.cfg file except for the one ...

That sounds like electrical interference from your computer.
If you are using a laptop, try running it on batteries - that may help to reduce the noise.