Audacity Forum

The issues that you are asking about are way beyond me, but I did find that many of the instability problems of the "official" Hardy build were solved by upgrading Audacity to 1.3.5 (Ubuntu Intrepid build).

Audacity 1.3x is absolute garbage on my system. It is incredibly instable and .... I had the same issues with Audacity 1.3.4 (the current Audacity build for Ubuntu 8.04 hardy) I'm using Audacity 1.3.5 ( Ubuntu Intrepid build) and it is MUCH better. If you want to try a 1.2.6 version. have a look fo...

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Trying to catch up with what you've tried already:

Maloney wrote:I turned off the internal mike on my laptop expecting the problem to be solved

How did you do that?

Audacity needs to be able to locate "lame_enc.dll" If Audacity can not find it automatically, and you cannot find it manually, download it again and put it somewhere that you can find easily (for example, in the root Audacity program folder). The "lame_enc.dll" is available from ...

hellosailor wrote:Steve, that's one of the reasons why I said up front I'M NOT INTERESTED IN USED DECKS.

Yes, I know - I've been following this conversation from the start. My last comment was not really for you, but for anyone picking up this thread late on. Good luck with your quest.
Steve

A couple of ideas come to mind:

Try rebooting the computer.

Have you / can you disable the on board sound card in BIOS?

Try a different sample rate/bit depth (Edit > Preferences > Quality)

Maloney wrote:I recently installed software for an AMON soundcard.

Possibly. Can you do a system restore, or uninstall that software and see if it solves the problem.

If you use Audacity 1.3.5 you can use "Split" from the "Edit" menu to cut the audio into pieces, then use the "Time shift tool" (double headed arrow) to slide the "clips" left/right to where you want them. When you "Export" the audio, the clips will ...

"Stuttering" is usually caused by a data bottleneck that prevents data from getting to your hard drive fast enough. Higher data rates (32 bit 96 kHz) are likely to suffer more than lower data rates (16 bit 44100Hz - CD quality). Disk fragmentation, shortage of free disk space, other progra...