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For recording Skype you will probably have to go with Koz's suggestion of "Cheap wine in an expensive bottle". For the Olympus recordings set the recorder to WAV. You will use a lot more space on the recording medium (flash card?) so keep an eye on your available space. Edit the show in Au...

Have I replied to this somewhere else on the forum?
Locking this topic.

I couldn't select a point and drag to another point xx seconds earlier without doing painful math in my head. Quick, what's 45 seconds back from 2:00:33? 1) Zoom so that you can see enough of the waveform. (45 seconds is a bit less than a minute, so if you can see "2:00:33" and "1:59...

Unfortunately there are only a few people on this forum that have the knowledge/experience AND the time and willingness to answer questions. Audacity and this forum are powered by volunteers. We hope that others are sufficiently inspired by Audacity to help out where they can. Sometimes it can take ...

I have allowed the program to send an error report and hopefully this may held the programmers. Unfortunately not. That report is sent to Microsoft. No-one knows what they do with the information. Make sure that you are not using any "special characters" in the labels. Stick to "a-z&...

kozikowski wrote:That's it.

How did you find it?

Step by step, please.

1) Look at the top of this page.
2) Read the words " Find immediate answers in our Tips and Tutorials!"
3) Click on the link "Tips"
4) Start reading.

kozikowski wrote:I'm a newbie.

cmstudio wrote:but it worked on m Dell previously,

Was that with Vista 64?

The Mbox will probably use ASIO drivers by default, but Audacity does not include ASIO support as standard, so you need to ensure that you also have Windows drivers installed for the Mbox and use those.

"Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O"
Try selecting the hw:0,0 option for recording and playback devices.

This can happen if Audacity does not shut down correctly. Try shutting down using "Exit" from the File menu and see if that solves it.