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Terrific :D I don't know if there is currently anyone doing the Swedish Translation, but I believe that the system used for translation can cope with multiple people working on the same language. If you write to the "feedback" e-mail address near the top of this page , someone (probably Ga...

Many of the translations of Audacity are incomplete. Audacity is a free, open source project and the development, support and translations are done by volunteer enthusiasts from around the world.Volunteers to help translate this Manual are very welcome. More information here: http://manual.audacityt...

It could have broken my audio device? Are you forserious? "break" in the sense that the sound card might stop working altogether, then you would probably need to clear out all the sound card drivers (on XP you can do this by removing the drivers in Safe Mode - I've not tried this in later...

Do other sounds play on your computer?

See here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 337#p77337

You could try alternative software for recording sound that is playing on the computer, for example Total Recorder (commercial) and SoundLeech (currently free) do not require "Stereo Mix" for recording sounds that are playing on the computer. There's some other ideas here: http://wiki.auda...

So this was basically my last resort. But if installing new drivers doesn't work, you can always revert back to the way things were earlier, or make a back up of existing ones. Though I was a little uncomfortable trying a different set of drivers, it all worked out. Good news ;) Thanks for letting ...

It depends what format the music was recorded in. If it was recorded directly from the keyboard onto the flash drive then it may be recorded as MIDI or some format that is specific to the keyboard that records only the "key presses" rather than the actual audio, in which case it will not b...

If you prefer to use the mouse you can double click on audio to select it - if there is just one audio clip (audio segment) in the track then it will select the entire track - if there are multiple separate audio clips then double clicking will select only the audio clip that you double click on..

Is it "better" to use A. from imported files than direct recording into the interface? That largely depends on the hardware that you use for recording. With good hardware the recording quality in Audacity can be excellent. Unfortunately the standard audio inputs on most PCs are usually of...