Audacity Forum

I recorded the full 60 seconds in Sound Recorder and saved it as a WAV file. Playback of that WAV file was normal. Good. That shows that your computer sound system is working correctly (at least for 60 seconds). I tried increasing the speed by 8.3% as indicated by another post and that fixed the pl...

Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3 - it seems to be a lot more stable on Vista than the old 1.2.6 version.
See the Audacity wiki for help with installing : http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

speed: 129kbps It's not an uncompressed WAV file. You my be able to find out more information about the format from the "details" section of the file properties (I don't use Vista). You may be able to convert the file into an uncompressed WAV file using "SUPER" by erightsoft, or...

I have a HP laptop. I used the microphone input on my laptop to record mp3 from turntable. I am getting background noise. That's not unusual, most PC laptops have very poor quality microphone inputs. I would like to use the usb port and Audacity. You can use an external audio device with Audacity, ...

Run out of available disk space?
USB turntable - interruption to USB data?
Power outage?
Cat pulled out a lead?
Screen saver started?
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On Windows, if you are using an internal sound card;
Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab
turn off "software playthrough".

1.) what do you use Audacity for ? Editing music and sound effects. Learning about audio on Linux. Making Nyquist plug-ins. Answering questions on the forum. 2.) where does Audacity really shine for you ? Integrated Nyquist programming support. It opens quickly - great for doing quick edits. Multi-t...

i extracted from avi (VirtualDub) "wav - 86MB" file Exactly what sort of WAV file is it? Right click on the file and look in the advanced properties, where it will tell you the number of channels, bit depth, sample rate, and so on. Too large file? How much free disk space do you have on y...

Are you absolutely certain that all audio files that were being used in the project still exist on your computer (in the same locations)? By default, Audacity imports uncompressed files such as WAV or AIFF by reading them directly from the file. This is normal practice with media editors and both sp...

Are you able to do anything with Audacity before it locks up?

Do you have an available recording source (sound card) on your computer? (Check in the Windows Control Panel in "Sounds and Audio Devices" to see what device Windows has selected for the default recording and playback devices).