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In that case I definately can't help you - that is the exact same installation file that I used for installing Audacity on my XP machine. There must be something (hardware or software) about your computer that is messing it up. It's quite ironic that you are one of the few people that want to use th...

Time stretching will also cause a similar kind of distortion, but using the "Undo", should return it to how it was before unless the data has somehow become corrupted. You can sometimes minimise the distortion effect by repeating a small change several times rather than making a big change...

It's more likely to be a limitation of the spectrum analysis. Audacity offers a number of different algorithms for plotting the spectrum and each has it's strengths and weaknesses. There are some very complex mathematics involved, but you will notice different results depending on which kind of &quo...

It's missing in some Linux versions, but in the Windows version it should be in the Effects menu ("Change Tempo"). If you try and slow things down too much, you will tend to get a "vibrato type effect. Depending on the material it sometimes works better if you just change the tempo a ...

In your mixer applicateion (for example ALSA mixer)

Import them back into Audacity. If they play OK, then it's probably a problem with the other program. If they look and sound clipped, then you probably created a mix in Audacity that was just too hot and will have to go back to the Audacity project and adjust the levels before you export.

Select the bit that you want to change, then apply the effect.

If the tinny sound is reverb, then you're out of luck, similarly with feedback. Good sound engineers will go to great lengths to avoid these in recordings, simply because once they are there you can't get rid of them. You may be able to reduce the effects to some degree using Equalisation, (in the e...

The tool you need is the "Equaliser". If you're getting a flat line output, you are probably doing something wrong, but that is the tool to use.