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rmcellig wrote:I usually use the command line tool arecord which works for me all the time

That could give us a good clue.
How exactly do you do that?

Which version of Audacity do you have? (look in "Help > About Audacity")
Which Linux distribution are you using?
Could you attach the XML file to your post - if the forum does not allow .XML files, add .txt to the name.

The ear and a loudspeaker cone are single planar (2 dimensional effectively) surfaces and can only vibrate at a single freqency at a time otherwise they would tear or break up. A magnet driving a loudspeaker can only resonate at a single frequency at a time so how do we get harmonies? The eardrum i...

Check the settings in the Control Panel: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... es#vistacp
Particularly check that the mic input is enabled.

I saw that you were using "method 1", but I thought it might be useful for other readers to see a bit more detail.
Have you tried method 2?

Make sure that playback is stopped and not just paused. (press the Stop button with the yellow square).

What happens if you double click on the file d:musicmensagem.aup

jjnr78 wrote:There are 1510 files within the folder

Within which folder?
Are you talking about the project_data folder?

You can't bring down the pitch of just one voice if it is mixed in with the other voices. You can bring down the pitch of all the sound by using the "Change Pitch" effect. Imagine that you have some red paint, some blue paint and some yellow paint and you mix them all together in a big buc...