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My guess is that it's overloading the mic input of your sound card. To get a reasonable drum sound the microphone needs to be reasonably close to the drum kit, but as you must be well aware, drum kits are *&^%@! loud. One of the down sides of standard sound card microphone inputs (apart from the...

You're probably right about Windows Media Player not supporting Metadata in WAV files. Microsoft WAV files were never intended to support metadata. You probably don't need to bother with the complications of cue sheets. I'd recommend CDBurnerXP as a flexible and easy to use (and free) CD burning pro...

I suspect the real issue is that no open source libraries provide that support Support for what? Support for Media Monkey's way of tagging WAV files? It's not an open source/closed source difference. Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, JetAudio (Cowon), WinAmp... none of these are open source and the...

Unfortunately you have an obsolete version of Audacity and it often has that problem on modern versions of Windows . Recovery may be possible but it is unlikely to be easy. Here's the information that we have: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Crash_Recovery As you've probably guessed, you should up...

System is right on the specs, a dual-core 2GHz cpu with 4GB of RAM I've got a cheap (Acer) laptop, dual core 2 GHZ cpu with 3 GB RAM and Windows Vista 32 bit. It handles recording multi-track projects with Audacity 2.x just as easily as the 1.3.x versions using either the onboard sound card or an e...

Better solution: Import the first file into a new project then use the Shift-Click or Ctrl+Click to add the others. That way you get them all in just the one Audacity window and can then do the copy/paste thing within that single Audacity environment. The problem with that is that if DrDebH only ha...

When I double click on the WAV icon it opens in 'Irfanview Good, at least you can see the files. Right click on the exported files and select "Properties". I don't think that you've told us which version of Windows you are using. If you're using Windows XP you can look on the "Summar...

One such SubChunkID may be ID3 Sorry, I don't see any mention of ID3 on that page. please note that your implementation of the tag 'Year' appears to be buggy. Do you mean because your other audio programs don't recognise it? Another good media with very good metadata support is VLC http://www.video...

Does Audacity start if you use your computer's on board sound card (USB sound card not connected)?

There is a huge gap in the instructions as so often happens when they have been translated by a non English speaking person. We have no control over what instructions are provided by other companies. We recommend that for using Audacity you use the documentation that is provided in the Audacity man...