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Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity")

Those instructions will install Audacity to /usr/local/share/audacity/
Your screenshot shows the installation path for the repository version of Audacity, /usr/share/audacity/

Kylerickards wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:58 am

So I installed 2.4.2 as per the detailed and very helpful instructions here.

Which instructions? Please post a link.

The "Audacity Recovery Utility" will only work with .AU that are still in Audacity's "temp" directory, as is the case if Audacity crashes during a recording (hardly ever happens these days). Once the project has been save, the recovery utility will no longer be useful because the...

Kylerickards wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 20, 2020 1:23 pm

No, I just have 6 items in that location.

Do you mean that you have 6 items in or 6 items in

Audacity should be installed here:

If you were following these steps: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=111755 ensure that you've done the final step: sudo make install That's the step that copies the newly built Audacity into the system directories and creates an App menu launcher (so that Audacity is available...

Check in the Windows Sound control panel to see what the "sample rate" is for the audio device that you are using, in both the Record tab and the Playback tab. They should both match the Audacity "Project Rate" (lower left corner of the main Audacity window).

I don't use OBS, so I can't help you with that, but a "helicopter sound" usually indicates that a "feedback loop" exists in the setup (or there's a helicopter flying over). A possible cause could be that you have accidentally enabled "Software Playthrough" ("Transp...

Whether recording or playing, the shortcut for "Stop" is the large and easily accessed spacebar. I really don't see a need for an additional shortcut for "Stop", but if you really want want you can set one (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/keyboard_preferences.html) "Play...