Audacity Forum

Did you move, rename or delete any files or folders?

How much free space it there on your C: drive?

if a project is created (or modified) in 1.3, will 1.2.6 still be able to read it? Audacity 1.2.6 can not open a project that has been saved by Audacity 1.3. If you want to be able to take a project back into Audacity 1.2.6, first open the project in Audacity 1.2.6 and save it with a new name (Save...

I wonder if you are picking up interference from your monitor or graphics card. Try minimising Audacity while it is recording and see if you still get the noise.

I want to edit a sound file by putting a limit on the voulme and cutting off any higher volume while making no change in the lower Probably the easiest way to do that is using the "Nyquist Prompt" effect. Select the audio that you want to "clip" and select the "Nyquist Prom...

If you use the latest versions of Audacity and Lame for Audacity you can make better sounding MP3s by using VBR (variable bit rate) encoding. The preset "Standard" should give reasonable sound for stereo music.

On Macs can you do this?

Install Audacity 1.3.11 (if you don't currently have it installed) Follow the steps here to reset the Audacity 1.3.11 preferences: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Preferences#Resetting_Preferences_to_defaults_2 Check in the Windows Control Panel that your microphone is set as the default ...

Is this with all MP3s?
How big are the MP3s?
What about other file formats such as WAV?
How much free disk space do you have?
How much free RAM do you have?
Do you get a lot of disk activity while this is happening?

I prefer links to be underscored - it's not always the case but it is something of a convention.

I should have said "Sample", but that is only when I do a "Select All" I've no idea what you mean. You realise that using Noise Removal is a 2 step process? Step 1) - select a region of noise only and press "Get Noise Profile" (nothing visible happens) Step 2) - select...