Audacity Forum

If you're writing a script, you could use LAME as a command line program to convert the MP3s, then use SoX for the other operations (in the same script).

One thing you can try to do is to duplicate the track and apply the effect to one of the tracks. Then fade out one of the tracks while you fade in the other. That's the way to do it.I use this technique regularly and it can be very effective. As an alternative to "fading" the tracks you c...

Of coarse i have other VST effects installed, There's no "of course" about it. In order to support VST plug-ins Audacity has to trust that the plug-ins are in accordance with the VST specifications, which many VST plug-ins aren't. Badly written plug-ins can cause problems in the host prog...

I've used it on a Pentium III 500 MHz desktop machine with no problems.

Audacity 1.2.6 is not recommended for Windows 7. You should upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/
If that does not cure the problem, check that the recording and playback sample rates in the Windows Control Panel (Sounds) match the settings in Audacity.

Why do you want to amplify with "allow clipping" selected?

Do you have other VST effects installed?

Do you have any utilities running on your computer that automatically clean up temporary files?
What exact version of Audacity (Help menu > About Audacity) and what version of Windows?
Did you leave Audacity recording while you were away from it?

If you use Skype or other voip programs, make sure they are not running in the background.
Then open the recording properties by right-clicking over the speaker icon in the System Tray > Recording Devices
and set the recording level.

There's a pretty thorough review in this topic: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Try running it again but press the Debug button instead of the OK button. If there is any text in the debug window (that will pop up), copy and paste it into your reply.

One thought - you're not using a comma as a decimal separator are you? The decimal point needs to be a dot.