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The sound activated recording problems have gotten worse, it sometimes can take up to 10 seconds before it starts recording, and it looses all 10 seconds. That's weird. It sounds like Audacity is fighting to gain access to the recording device. Do you have other audio software running? What are you...

Curly8888 wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:46 pm

Error message cannot load file

"cannot load file"?
Is that all?
Did you definitely use "File menu > Open"?
Which version of Audacity are you using?

carkb381 wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:35 pm

Could not find any audio devices

What audio devices were you hoping to use?

Is your show mono or stereo?

I've tried autotalent-0.2_Linux64, but it does not work for me.

Here's a sine tone that has a nominal frequency of 440 Hz, but modulates at 1 cycle per second between 438 Hz and 442 Hz.
The spectrogram settings are shown below.
(more info about track spectrogram view: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spe ... _view.html)

I am quickly learning that there is no substitute for good vocals.

Very true.
There's a saying: "You can't make a silk purse from a pig's ear". My voice is the proverbial pig's ear, which is why I'm a violinist and not a singer

Your Macro looks OK. To apply the macro: Start a new, empty Audacity project. Then, from the "Tools" menu, select either "Macros" or "Apply Macros > Pallette". Select the Macro that you want to run, then click the " Files " button. Select the files that you wa...

The problem is that when i'm trying to select clips to edit the clip will automatically start playing whenever I move the cursor. If it is playing without you clicking (just moving the mouse pointer over the waveform), then you've probably accidentally enabled "scrubbing". Go to "Tra...

Try selecting one of those "MP3" files with this page: https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline
That page will analyze the file and provide detailed information about the format. I'm guessing that it isn't actually an MP3.
What does the page say?