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Which exact version of Audacity are you using? (Help menu > About Audacity)

For best quality, use 44.1 kHz and also, check that the Sony is set to record in HQ mode. Interestingly the "marketing specification" for this model says that the HQ setting has a frequency range up to 16 kHz, but the User manual says that the HQ setting has a frequency range up to only 6....

assuming it's got the same basic capabilities of Sonar, Cubase or even Soundforge, It hasn't. Sonar, Cubase and Soundforge can use ASIO drivers which add a lot more functionality than the standard Windows drivers. Unfortunately Audacity cannot be shipped with ASIO support due to licensing restricti...

It all worked on my other school's computer If you are trying to download on a school computer via their internet connection then there is almost certainly a firewall between the computer and the Internet. Schools frequently have very restrictive Internet filtering and it is very likely that a scho...

(The [AudioFiles] section probably exists already, so just put ShowId3Dialog=0 in that section).

I have a big hard drive so I think I will do them all in WAV and the experiment with the different MP3 setting. We generally recommend that people keep an "archive" copy in either WAV or FLAC format and then make MP3's as and when they need them. Some folk keep 2 archive copies on differe...

1 hour at 44.1 kHz sample rate, 16-bit mono, will require about 320 MB. 1 hour at 44.1 kHz sample rate, 32-bit float mono, will require about 640 MB. (default) If the recording is stereo it will be double (~1.3 GB). You will also need additional space for "Undo" files if you edit the recor...

To record through the USB port you need to use a USB audio interface (example edirol ua-1ex or similar)

MP3 is a "lossy" format. To make the file smaller, MP3 encoding throws some data away, then squashes the remaining data together. This makes the file smaller, but the data that is thrown away can never be recovered, so the sound quality deteriorates. If it deteriorates too much, then it wi...

pstein wrote: Hmm, when I drag the save *.avi onto v1.2.6 everything works fine.

That's bizarre. Audacity 1.2.6 does not support video files. Are you sure that the files really are .avi format and not some other format with the wrong extension?