Audacity Forum

The most simple workaround is to switch off the Metadata dialogue in Preferences and to use another application for tagging. As I understand it, the issue is that if the metadata export dialogue is called before the audio format type is selected, then you have the result of people entering meta data...

Some on-board sound cards simply do not have this feature.
There are software solutions such as "Total Recorder", or the hardware solution of upgrading your sound card.

I think we will need to hear a sample to be able to diagnose the problem further. Can you upload a short sample (just a couple of seconds) of recorded crackly audio somewhere on the internet (in WAV format) and post a link so that we can download it and have a listen.

USB headphones are a completely separate audio device to the computer sound card. You probably have Audacity set to use the computer sound card as the play back device (hence the speakers work). To get sound from the USB headphones, you need to set Audacity to use the USB headphones as the playback ...

Sorry to say that when you close an Audacity project, the "undo" files are deleted. If you are on a Windows computer there is an extremely slim possibility that you may be able to recover some of the deleted data by using a file recovery program (such as Norton Unerase) to recover the old ...

There are two effects designed for this kind of thing, but I've no idea how well they work. Before recent advances in digital analysis of audio made such things practical I would have said that you are probably already achieving the best that can be hoped for, but these effects may (or may not) offe...

Is my question difficult or idiotic? I see several views, but no help yet..... :? Patience is a virtue - I've just finished a 10 hour shift at work and this is the first time I've had chance to read your post. There are quite a lot of possibilities, so let's run through a few things and see if we c...

Could you give us a step by step account of what you are doing, and at what point the error occurs.
Can you import ANY audio files successfully into Audacity?

I've been using audacity for all my recording needs, and never had any problems, till today. So we need to try and work out what has changed between yesterday and today. Have you run a full virus check recently? If not, run one now (full system scan) and leave it overnight to complete. Assuming the...

However only the first one, from buanzo.com.ar, works with Audacity 1.3.7. So what's the problem? If you build both Audacity and Lame from their source code on the same computer, then provided that all the dependencies are met, then they will probably both work, and work together. The Audacity deve...