Audacity Forum

This is very unusual, but there's been a couple of special builds of lame to try and solve such unusual cases. Do a search on your computer and remove any lame_enc.dll files that you may have installed that don't work. Then try this one - unzip the dll and put it into the Audacity program flolder as...

You've probably cleared the selections somehow.
There needs to be a selected region of a track.

Also, see this tutorial: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Split ... ate_tracks

See these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Metadata_Editor

(note that if you are using the old Audacity 1.2.x, the manual will be different to what you see and I would recommend upgrading to Audacity 1.3.13
http://audacityteam.org/download/

You say that everything was previously working fine on this machine?

Try resetting the Audacity Preferences, just in case something has got messed up in there.
See here for details: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audac ... defaults_2

Sorry, it was the "Directories" tab that I was interested in.
(No problem that I can see with the settings that you have reported)

If you import an audio file, then that will be on one audio track. If you record your voice, that will be on a different audio track. To gain some familiarity with the program, have a look at the "Getting Started" section of the manual http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Quick_Help and perh...

What does it say on:
"Edit menu > Preferences > Libraries"

(if you could post a screen shot, that's would save a lot of typing)

Keep the vocals and music on separate audio tracks and only apply the effect to the track(s) that you want.

If your computer is a full-size PC (rather than a laptop), AND if the analogue sound has passed through the pre amp as we suspect, then you will probably get a reasonable recording by connecting the 2 phono out connectors to the " Line In " of the computer sound card (even with a cheap sou...

2) The visual difference between left and right channels of a stereo recording can be extremely subtle. Try recording a record that has very clear and obvious stereo, then play back the recording to check that it is recording in stereo. 3) What settings are you using? The only connection between the...