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You could try Audacity 1.3.7 and see if you have more success with that. (hardware support is somewhat more advanced in Audacity 1.3.7)

You may be able top work around this by zooming out to show the full project, thus eliminating the screen scrolling.

This may be due to a bug in the "Link Tracks" feature. Link Tracks can be switched off using the button on the Edit Toolbar http://audacityteam.org/manual/images/e/e5/StickyLinked.png More information about this feature: http://audacityteam.org/manual/index.php?title=Label_Tracks#Linking_l...

Thanks. Would you happen to know if the Fostex digital recorder work? There is a topic about which sound cards are known to work with Audacity here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477 There's not many sound cards reviewed yet, but if you get the Fostex working, please post ...

In a similar forum thread, one of the Audacity developers gave this advice: I suggest you reset 1.3 Preferences properly by exiting Audacity, removing all content from audacity.cfg except "NewPrefsInitialized=1" and saving the changes. Then get rid of all copies of lame_enc.dll from your c...

the save windows came up, and I saved as .wav. Only, nothing was saved. We need to be careful about terminology here - this is a common source of confusion so we need to be clear. Audacity does not "save" wav files. Audacity "saves" Audacity projects. Audacity "Exports"...

Check the device settings in "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O"

I have two projects here now that when I open them, Audacity hangs. It gets as far as drawing the audio image, greys out the menus, does *not* pop up the "Inspecting..." window, and hangs itself. I have to kill it to recover. Ouch, that is nasty. I agree with your assessment that there is...

Also, if you have speakers connected to the computer they should be switched off while you record.

Is it possible for a normal, mainstream computer like mine (Toshiba Satellite laptop from late 2006 running Windows XP) to be unable to record streaming audio with Audacity Unfortunately that is a possibility, though it is more common on Vista machines. For some reason some manufacturers have produ...