Audacity Forum

Very likely to be a sound card driver issue. Have a look inside the computer to see what sort of motherboard you have, then look on the motherboard manufacturers web site for updated drivers. Alternatively, if it is a "branded" computer, check on their web site.

For Vista you should really be using Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/ I suspect that the problem is either a sound card set-up issue, or you have "software playthrough" enabled in Audacity. In Audacity 1.2.6 that setting is somewhere in the Preferences. In Audacity 1.3.12 ...

For Win 7 you need to use Audacity 1.3.12 You can get it from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ Also note that there are some issues that specifically concern the use of Audacity on Win 7: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Windows_7_OS To install Audacity (as with other programs) you should ru...

Most of the basics are covered in this tutorial: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Creat ... h_Audacity

See here for how to install Lame: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Lame_Installation On Vista you should be using Audacity 1.3.12 which you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ If you already have the WAV files and you just need to convert them to MP3, you can use Foobar2000 (as sug...

I don't think there should be any problem if pops are clipped. The main difference is that they will sound a bit more "click" rather than "pop". The various click repair techniques should still work on clipped pops as on unclipped pops - perhaps even better depending on the tool....

I just see a lot of 1mb files, not a 50-200 mb length one as should be expected; That is normal. Audacity writes data in 1 MB chunks. The advantage of doing this is that if you make an edit in the middle of a track, Audacity does not need to rewrite the entire track data, it only needs to change th...

can someone give me a step by step instruction page on how to install recovery in utility Very few of us have used the recovery tools - Personally if I get a crash and it's not automatically recovered on the next launch of Audacity I cut my losses and go back to the previous back-up copy (or if I d...

Ctrl+A to select All.

If all the individual tracks are amplified to 0 dB, then when they play together, the mix will exceed 0 dB and will distort (clip).

Gale Andrews wrote:Personally I would like to select between labels by double-click in the label track.

For consistency with the behaviour of other track types, shouldn't double clicking within a label region select the region, and double clicking outside of any labels select from the first label to the last label?