Audacity Forum

For Windows 7 you should use Audacity 1.3.12 (or 1.3.13 when it is released later this month)
http://audacityteam.org/download/

Yes it's a known issue with Audacity 1.2.6.
The best solution is to upgrade to the latest 1.3.x version (currently 1.3.12, but 1.3.13 is due out next week).

it doesn't really help because in my computer's sound/recording selections are still only microphone & microphone. I'm not seeing a listing for sound card. Windows 7 does not list the physical sound card. It lists each available input as a separate "device". Often Windows 7 will hide ...

Following the instructions here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel
can you get as far as this:

As to whether the microphone is muted, it is, as you can see below. Well that sure as heck looks like it's muted, but if it really is muted then there should be no signal from it. Audacity does not have its own sound system, it just accesses the computer sound system - that's the same for all versi...

There's some information here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477 The best choice of sound card largely depends on what he will be recording and budget. The best version of Audacity is currently 1.3.12, but it is due to be superseded very soon (probably next week) by Audacit...

(Selected audio to ensure that there would be audio before the first silence point, did the Silence Find, and went to Export Multiple, in the dialogue the 'Label' radio button is on, but the 'include audio before first . . .' checkbox remains greyed out -- disabled.) I can't reproduce that. Are you...

Go to:
"Edit menu > Preferences > Devices"
Ensure that the "Playback" device is set correctly. If you are listening through your computer sound card, then it needs to be set here.

I'm not sure which manual you are looking at. The current manual is here: Noise Removal ["A few" means different things to different people. Be clear. Tell us how many seconds you want. 1 to 3 ? 5 to 10 ? 10 to 20 ? How many is a few? The length of the noise sample is not critical. The imp...

Try the "Truncate Silence" effect.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Truncate_Silence