Audacity Forum

Use Audacity 1.3.5 this has an option to turn off the Metatag window.

So you are recording on a laptop computer and recording the sounds that come out of the laptop speakers with the laptop's in-built microphone?

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly, but if you apply an effect and you don't like the result, the you "undo" it (Edit menu > Undo).

My dad has recorded himself speaking, using Audacity, and has saved it to the computer. But when we open it up, we see that it doesn't play in one stream from beginning to end. Instead, one must click on each icon to listen to all the parts of the message This is one of the most common misunderstan...

and eventually identified file ' vst-bridge.dll' as the culprit. Eventually? :D The VST enabler is at present only able to support some VST plugins, and even then, without full graphical support. Ir will, however, attempt to enable all the VST plugins that it can find. Unfortunately, this means tha...

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Cassette tapes will gradually fade over time, loosing bass and treble first, and replacing it with hiss.
Vinyl on the other hand, if stored flat and at a reasonable temperature, will last for centuries.

Check the settings in iTunes and see if it is compressing the files. Are the files the same size after importing into iTunes as they were before they were imported?

My guess would be the VST enabler. If you can live without VST effects in Audacity it will probably work.

How very surprising :shock: It is almost a valid WAV file, but there's some weird stuff in it. I don't know enough about it to give you a definitive answer, but it seems to have some XML data embedded in it (courtesy of Adobe). Whatever they have done to it is just enough to upset Audacity on Window...