Audacity Forum

I think this problem has been fixed in the code, but it may not have reached the current release version yet, so here's a manual fix that should work: Find the file "audacity.cfg" (it's in a hidden folder, so enable searching for hidden files) and open it in a text editor. On Vista the fil...

Even when I mute my microphone recording volume from the control panel, it still persists You need to also mute the microphone "playback" volume. This may or may not also fix the other problem - basically when using Stereo Mix you must mute all ins and outs except for the ones that you sp...

Make sure that all recording and playback inputs/outputs that you are not using are muted (especially the microphone input and output). Make sure that all sound card effects and enhancements are turned off. Check in the audio settings of "sounds and audio devices" in the Windows Control Pa...

I presume that you are using the default ./configure I'm not an expert on this, but if you have had several attempts at building it may be worth doing a "make clean" and running make again. 2.8.10 is the recommended version of WxWidgets, but I had problems getting Audacity to build with th...

But what about the 'muddy' sound It could be that you're compressing it too much with the MP3 encoding. Does it still sound muddy if you export as WAV? I don't use the compress effect.... I don't mean the "compress effect" (dynamic compression), I mean "data compression". MP3 fi...

Thanks to everyone for their help. Steve The Fiddle, I'm looking at your notes, and under "tracks" in my system, there is a "split to mono", but it's shaded light and I can't activate it. Any suggestions? JP Well (obviously) it must be a stereo track. I'm not sure what else can ...

What version of WxWidgets do you have? It needs to be at least version 2.8.9

seve wrote:sorry if I posted in wrong place

No problem - it just saves a lot of time if posts are in the right sections.
If you still need help after you have upgraded, start a new topic (in the appropriate part of the forum )

So here we are, giving you advice about Audacity 1.2.x, but you're not using 1.2 are you? What version of Audacity are you using? Audacity 1.3.9 saves the auto backup file in: C:Documents and Settings<username>Application DataAudacityAutoSave The auto backup file is called something similar to: New ...

Does the sound quality also go bad?
What sample rate are you using? (Edit menu > Preferences > Quality)