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You need to use the "Normalize" effect. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Normalize

Good grief! I just noticed my toolbars have gotten rearranged! It happens when I capture the screenshot. The meters get shorter too, and both volume sliders get set to FS. I just tried to save a screenshot of the toolbars in 1.3.13 to show the change, and the same thing happened. You'll probably fi...

Close but no cigar ;) That's not an audio file, it's part of an Audacity Project (while we're on the subject, do read this vital information: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects ) To make an audio file that you can upload and I can download, select a few seconds (say 4 or 5 seconds)...

When you reply, look below the message compose box - there's a tab that says "Upload attachment". Click on that and you can browse for the audio file (must be short - the size limit is only 1 or 2 MB) then click "Add the file".

Have you checked that DMA access is enabled for your hard drive?

If you switch to 16-bit default sample format 44100 Hz default sample rate (Edit menu > Preferences > Quality), does it make any difference (better or worse)?

I'm trying to remember the last time I installed SoX on Windows, it was quite some time ago (I usually use Linux), but I think I had to manually add the path even after using the SoX installer (though without adding the path, if you open a command window and navigate to the folder where SoX is insta...

I thought it might be an Olympus - they usually save files in strange formats. Does it play correctly in iTunes? Could you check exactly which version of Audacity you have (look in the Audacity Help menu > About Audacity) Hopefully you have Audacity 1.3.13, but if not you can download 1.3.13 from he...

See here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 12&t=57011

If you could post a short sample (just a few seconds, preferably in FLAC or WAV format) then we may be able to suggest some settings.

Unfortunately those beeps are not simple sounds, but contain a very large number of frequencies over a wide frequency range. It would be a long and arduous job to try and filter out each frequency, and even then, because there are so many frequencies, a large amount of the audio that you want to kee...