Audacity Forum

My 500MHz Pentium III manages at least 6 or 7 tracks. My 3GHz Pentium IV can handle well over 20 tracks - I've never had enough tracks going for it to start struggling at all. If you have a modern computer and it is choking on just 5 tracks, then you should look in the "Tips" (see link at ...

Possibly, possibly not.
Could you describe your setup so that we have a clear mental picture of exactly what you are doing.
Uploading a short sample of the recording somewhere on the internet and posting a link might also help.

select the audio that you want to repeat, then select "Repeat" from the effects menu and enter the number of times that you want it to repeat. To hear other tracks while recording a new one, go to preferences (from Edit menu) and in the Audio I/O tab select "play other tracks while re...

Use Audacity 1.3.6
Select the desired area before you press record.

Try putting Lame in the Audacity program directory on each computer.

If you are happy with mono recording you will not need anything special - most sound cards will do the job (but probably not on-board sound cards as they are usually rubbish quality. I use a Behringer UCA 202 with a mixing desk to record the main output and it works great (and only around $30). Most...

To access the effects and analyse menus you must have some audio selected (click and drag your mouse across a track). The help file is not included in Audacity 1.2, but is available on line here: http://audacityteam.org/help/documentation There is also a lot of additional information in the Audacity...

Start recording a good time before the section that you want to correct - it will record onto a new track.
Stop the recording after you have gone past the part that needs correcting.
Cut or cross-fade from the original track to the newly recorded track and back to the original track.

I'm getting similar (but different) fatal compile errors on Ubuntu 8.10 when compiling from the 1.3.6 source Tarball. During the compile there was an error: *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact...