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Sound Finder could do with a new control "Ignore sounds shorter than [seconds]" . This would consider sounds that are shorter than the minimum duration to be part of the "silence". The use case is that it would enable removal of a lot of loud but short duration sounds. Not sure ...

Forum member Steve made a plugin called popmute which is like an inverted noise gate: when the signal goes above a threshold, (not below like a regular gate), it can be squelched to silence, it may be worth a try, see .... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=50671 Another possibl...

I'd use MP3Split or mp3DirectCut before anything else. If you just want to make simple cut/trim type edits then you can probably do the job using only one or other of these. If you want to do more complex editing I'd recommend splitting the MP3s into more manageable size chunks, say 1 hour of audio,...

As far as I'm aware, Audacity 1.2.x does not support AC3 format. Upgrade to Audacity 1.3.14 (get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ ) and then install FFMpeg http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg With this set-up you should be able to impo...

Use Audacity 1.3.14 (available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ )

Connect the Tascam before you launch Audacity.
Connect your headphones to the Tascam.
Set the recording and playback devices to the USB option using the Device Toolbar

Which version of Windows do you have?

Here's the relevant part of the file: <wavetrack name="Mixer" channel="2" linked="0" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" rate="44100" gain="1.0" pan="0.0"> <waveclip offset="0.00000000&q...

Not easily. Audacity Projects may contain multiple audio clips in the same track, each with a start position offset. You would need to identify the final audio clip (<sequence> ... </sequence>) in a track and its offset value, then add together the offset time with the sequence "numsamples"...

So are you saying that you can plug-in your keyboard to the computer sound card and everything is OK, but if you then unplug the keyboard and plug in the guitar then there is a delay?

gvverner9 wrote: When I try to play my guitar or mic through my computer speakers I get a delay that really throws me off while trying to overdub. The weird thing is my alesis keyboard doesn't experience the same delay.

So what are you doing different when you use the keyboard?