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Check the system power settings and ensure that the USB ports do not "sleep" or "suspend".

Click on the name of the track ("Long Audio"), then select "Waveform" from the dropdown menu.

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Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:34 pm

I tried restarting audacity and also the whole computer. it starts recording for some few minutes and after i pause/stop a few times, it comes up with the problem.

No error message?

You can try "double blind ABX testing " of correctly mastered 44.1 kHz 16-bit against 96 kHz 24-bit. If you can hear the difference, then most likely there's something wrong with the recordings or the playback. Double blind ABX testing can be done by exporting two WAV files from the same p...

Audio CDs are 16-bit and are considered to be capable of excellent audio quality.

32-bit float is better during mixing and processing audio, primarily because 32-bit float eliminates the risk of accidental overload ("clipping").

Try setting the "Host" to MME in the Device Toolbar and the recording device as the USB mic. (The playback device should be set to your computer's sound card unless your USB mic has a headphone socket).

I would advise against using bluetooth headphones with Audacity. Better to use wired headphones. If you must use bluetooth headphones, use the Windows Sound control panel to set them as the default playback device, and access them in Audacity via the "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output" in th...

If you reboot your computer, then open Audacity (and no other apps), and then import an audio file into Audacity, does it play?

You may also find this section of the manual helpful: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nav ... _tips.html

The "Return" ("Enter") key toggles the selectedness of the current track. In Audacity there are two parts to a selection, there is a temporal selection (a single range of time), ad there is a "track selection" (any number of tracks that are selected). The selected time ...