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Could you try this experiment - it may help to rule out some possibilities: 1) Open Audacity 2) Tracks > Add New > Stereo Track 3) Generate > Tone > Sine / 440 Hz / 0.2 / 300 seconds. 4) Check that the generated tones play for the full 5 minutes. 5) File > Export > Export as WAV Microsoft signed 16-...

The strange thing is that even though I have split the stereo track into left and right tracks, and deleted the right track, the resulting mono track still has a left-right slider, and if I slide this to the left I get a fairly clean recording (well it is off a 20 year-old tape so not that clean) b...

Topic moved to the Audacity 1.3.x part of the forum.

Which version of Windows?
What do you have selected in the Device Toolbar?
Are you recording from some sort of USB device?

Are there guidelines on these levels that I just haven't found yet? See this part of the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Making_a_Test_Recording The golden rule is that the recording level should always be less than 0 dB. The waveform displayed on the track should never touch ...

Sorry I do not speak Russian, but as you wish to help with translation I assume that you understand written English. If you are fluent in both English and Russian, you can help translate the Audacity software, web site and Beta Manual. We also need people to help provide support for Audacity in diff...

Ensure that you only use standard characters in the file name. Standard characters are: letters (a-z, A-Z) numbers (0-9) hyphen - underscore _ space Some other characters can cause problems as they may produce names that are not allowed by the file system. Also avoid using file names that are all in...

kozikowski wrote:I'll take your word for it because I can't open the file.

Here's the two files: Reverb will push sounds into the distance.

"Audacity should not set a selection before time zero if there is no audio before time zero. Yes I think I would agree with you. I'm inclined to take it one step further and say that zero crossing detection should not extend the selection into white space. Gale brought bug 183 to my attention....

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vkrishn wrote:The "effect - vocal removed" is disabled.

Is it only "Vocal Remover (for centre-panned vocals)" that is disabled or all all effects disabled?
Effects are disabled while Audacity is playing, recording or paused. Effects are only available when Audacity is stopped.