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Sound Recorder is a simple audio recording application that comes with Microsoft Windows operating systems. In Windows XP, navigate to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder. In most versions of Windows you can also open Sound Recorder by clicking "Start->Run" ...

The "Sound Recorder" uses the Microsoft Sound Mapper for audio in and out, so if you follow these steps exactly then it should work: 1) Open "Sound Recorder" 2) Record something 3) Play the recorded sound (you should be able to hear it play back, if not then you need to fix this ...

So you are wanting to "time stretch" by a factor of around 10:1? (1/10th second becomes 1 second). That is a lot of stretching and will have various problems. Since it is a piano sound, you are dealing with a sound that is quite percussive, with a slow decay. Only the low notes of a piano ...

Audacity projects are saved as an "aud" file + files in a data folder - none of these are ordinary audio files, they are the audacity project files. To get ordinary audio files (wav, ogg or mp3) you must "Export" (in the "file" menu).

Select the bit that you want to change, then "Effect" menu -> "Change Tempo"

No, I mean can you record with "Windows Sound Recorder"
In Windows XP, navigate to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder.

You mean that you can't hear the recorded track while you are recording a new one?

If this is the case, then:
Click on the menu "Edit->Preferences->Audio I/O" and select the box "Play other tracks while recording new one"

Is it a "Line In" or a "Mic. In" on your laptop?

Are you saying that the left and right channels of a stereo recording swapping sides, or that you are recording a mono source as a stereo recording, and it switches from one channel to the other and back again?

Assuming that you are on Windows, please do the following: Right Click on the WAV file and select "Properties" Take a note of the size of the file as shown on the "General" tab. Click on the "Summary" tab, and then on the "Advanced" button. either copy all the...

There seems to be a problem with the link on the Audacity website. However you can download it from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6235 This is the actual download link that I have just used http://downloads.sourceforge.net/audacity/audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz?modtime=1163...