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going into the mic input on my laptop not good :( Mic inputs on typical PC laptops are generally low quality. A mic signal is about 1000x lower than "line level" so there's also a big mismatch, and mic inputs are often mono. Also, Windows often has "enhancements" enabled by defa...

madronicle wrote: Is there any way to establish when the recording was created?

No there isn't.

If you want to play the MP3 you could try VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
(it's a free player that can play most things).

Audacity 1.2 is really old and lacks a lot of features that are available in 1.3.13 http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows

In Audacity 1.3.13 you can use:
Edit > Remove Audio > Split Cut
or
Edit > Remove Audio > Split Delete

shortcuts are:
Alt+Ctrl+X
and
Alt+Ctrl+K
respectively.

Are you by any chance looking for this: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 42&t=58548

You'll need to be more descriptive.

How are you recording?
What equipment are you using?
Which version of Windows?
What exactly are you doing?
At what stage are they "not in sync"?

If there are any background noises, listen to them carefully for any discontinuities. If cuts/edits have been made, but not very well, then by switching to the Spectrogram track display you may see vertical lines like this: window001.png Note that a good edit will not show this. Also, vertical line ...

as a stereo track comes up upon recording I took the drop down box option to turn the stereo track to mono. As stated the recording only comes out on one channel otherwise Let's deal with that first. In the Device Toolbar , set the number of "Input Channels" to "1 (mono)". I've ...

Topic split - there are several significant differences between your issue BuzzP and the issue in the previous topic, so it's simpler to deal with your issue separately. What settings do you have in the Device Toolbar ? How is your turntable connected to the computer? Are you still able to make reas...

Does the "VST scanning" still occur?

Thanks for all your testing Dick. Unless I've made any typos this should be the final version. A few minor changes: Help screen added Error checking added to avoid invalid user input The minimum time slider values is now 1 millisecond as going below 1 ms is not really useful (in most cases it will c...