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If you play sounds with other applications (for example Windows Media Player) does it still sound like it's in an echo chamber? There will probably be a loudspeaker icon near the time/date on your Desktop. Open it up and find the Recording settings section. Make sure that the recording source is set...

There's a similar question a few posts down, but I didn't want to hijack it. Thanks - multiple questions in the same thread get very confusing. Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate. You need to set the recording source for you computer...

An "audio CD" is a CD that will play in a CD player. A "data" CD is a CD that contains computer data - it will not play in most CD players even if it contains audio files because it is not in the audio CD format. You cannot make an audio CD directly from an Audacity Project. You ...

toddpressman wrote:then clicked on the burn icon.

What "burn icon"?
What operating system are you using?
What CD burning program are you using?
Audacity does not burn CDs

Play at x1 and press SHIFT+A to stop playback - puts cursor near the correct place. Use the mouse pointer and the "B" key to play the section between the playback cursor and the mouse pointer. Various ways to adjust the playback cursor position. Usually I just use Ctrl+wheel to zoom in/out...

I'm on Ubuntu and the package names on Ubuntu are: "libmad0" and "libmad0-dev" On Ubuntu the -dev file is required when compiling applications that use it. As it says in the Audacity wiki: Note that some Linux distributions make a practice of splitting each library they package i...

Check that you have plenty of free disk space.
Check that you have not used any special characters in either the file names, the metadata or the labels. Stick with a to z, 0 to 9, underscore "_" and hyphen "-"

Is this fuction still available? That depends on your sound card drivers. "Stereo Mix"/"What U Hear" is disabled by the sound card drivers for some sound cards on Windows 7 (sometime on Vista as well). See here for how to select it if it is available, and possible workarounds if...

I get the same on Linux with the exception of the Del key produces ascii character &#385

Install both libmad and the development library for libmad (libmad-dev) - most distros include them in their repository.