What sort of drive is the project stored on, and what format is the drive?
(I've been using Audacity 3.0.2 for nearly 2 months, and I've not seen any stability problems at all. My version is built from source on Xubuntu 20.04.)
Has the mic got a jack plug? If, after swapping the left and right mics (including leads), the noise still occurs in the left channel, then it's not likely to be due to the mic or lead. Also, if you look closely to the waveform of the interference, you can see that it is some kind of "digital&...
Your setup is a pair of microphones plugged into the Steinberg UR22, which is then connected to your computer via USB? Have you tried unplugging the microphones from the interface and swapping them round (so that channel 2 now has the mic and mic lead that were previously plugged into channel 1)? Ar...
You don't need ACX Check. You can measure your work with ACX Audio Lab https://www.acx.com/audiolab Be aware of what that does and does not test. It does check the peak and RMS levels, though it does not detect if the audio is too compressed. It does check the file format (which ACX-Check.ny cannot...
Whatever app you have used to create that file has inserted some non-printing data (hex FF FE) into the file before the first digit.
The file must be plain ASCII text.
Also, the data should be the sample values only (not the time index values).
The sample rate of the exported file is taken from the "Project Rate" in the lower left corner of the main Audacity window. Set that to the sample rate you require (44100) before you export. Note that if you use a very low "kbps" setting for MP3 export, the sample rate will need ...