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Sorry I do not speak French. Try exporting to a different location, for example; export to "My Documents" or to the "Desktop". Google Translate: Désolé, je ne parle pas français. Essayez d'exporter vers un autre emplacement, par exemple, l'exportation de "Mes documents"...

The FLAC file should be identical to the WAV file.
Please talk us through step by step how to reproduce this problem.

The main site is down at the moment. You can either try again later or the "alternative 3.98.4 build" link is working: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#lame

The first and most obvious problem is that the recording level is far too high. Check the recording input settings in the Windows Sound Control Panel and see if you can reduce the recording level so that the waveform in Audacity is about half the height of the audio track. (you may be able to adjust...

The main site is down at the moment. You can either try again later or the "alternative 3.98.4 build" link is working: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#lame

for my MacBook Pro (mid 2010), I can choose 32bit Float for the bit depth of the line in; The ADC will not actually be converting with 32 bit float precision. At best it will be capable of a maximum of 22 bit precision. Bit formats can be converted to higher bit formats losslessly, so for example a...

The difference between "standard limiter" and "brick wall limiter" is like the difference between soft knee and hard knee compression (respectively). The "standard" limiter will probably sound more "transparent" when a small amount of limiting is required. I w...

I think it does sound more distorted after brickwall. Harmonic distortion using brick wall limiter will never be greater than when using Amplify. Amplify will result in clipping at 0 dB. Brick wall limiter prevents that from occurring by reducing the gain as necessary. Does your playback system han...

JACOB9 wrote:...So if i set the sound device to allow Audacity to take exclusive control and set to direct sound in Audacity there should be no resampling or processing of the sound between the sound device and audacity?

That's the theory. Try it out and see if it works. (I can't try this as I don't have Win7)

Audacity is trying to find out what audio hardware you have, but for some reason ALSA is not telling.

Do you have alsa-plugins-pulse installed?