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"Better sounding" is highly subjective. Can you provide a couple of short audio examples?
See here for how to post audio samples: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=72887

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a dB scale in the right margin of the waveform display? Personally I think that using a linear vertical scale "for simplicity" was a mistake. It would be OK for a very simple and limited audio editor, but for an application that is as full-featured as Aud...

USB headset?

You have accidentally enabled "Snap To" and set the time scale units to "seconds". See here for more info: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#snap

You could build Audacity from the source code and enable mod-script-pipe (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/scripting.html), but it would probably be easier to use a command line player such as SoX (http://sox.sourceforge.net/) rather than Audacity.

Using some of Gale's text but in the "how to" style of the original text: Sounds that have a peaks exceeding the 'Threshold level' will be lowered by an amount set by 'Mute by (dB)'. Take care to avoid selecting loud sounds that you do not want to be muted. The effect 'looks ahead' for pea...

The dialog has a string which explains the dichotomous conflict and offers the user the three choices: Cancel and the two potential resolutions to the conflict. The dialog also has a checkbox for "Don't ask me again"; this user's choice is represented in Preferences by three checkboxes: D...

If you are in Europe, these are the best budget headphones that I have found: http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tbone_hd880.htm They won't compete with Koss Pro-4AA, but they are fantastic for the price. Out of 8 sets of these (not all for me ;) ) I've had one pair that were faulty, but Thomann replaced ...

You're right, the dither noise in 16 bit stereo WAV files is much noisier than it should be.

Ensure that the microphone is connected and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity.
Then select the USB microphone adapter as the recording input in the device toolbar/