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Is your voice audible in the recording if your microphone is not plugged in?
I know that sounds like a silly question, but please try it.

hlowry21 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:25 pm

when I went to record I am getting constant static.

Are you also getting the sound of your voice, or it is only noise?

This has been discussed many times before, and I think that the main problem is that different users want different things. Some users want to be able to lock the track entirely: If you want to change anything in a track (including track buttons and sliders), then the track has to be unlocked first....

I can create sound labels I assume that you are doing that with "Sound Finder"? I am not able to do it with silences Doesn't "Silence Finder" do what you want? Trying to guess what problem you are trying to describe: Are you wanting region labels rather than point labels?

The main use of WASAPI with Audacity is with the "loopback" recording device. This is used for recording what is playing on the computer. (details here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html) WASAPI can often be used for recording normal i...

Danby wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:43 pm

Google/Firefox/Edge can't connect to lame.buanzo.org not sure what is blocking it.

Working fine for me with Firefox and Chrome browsers. Perhaps there was a temporary connection problem.

machineghost wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:58 pm

If you're unclear about the "orphaned bits" dialog showing up,

Yes, that's the part that I can think of no explanation for. If you simply open a project and press play, Audacity doesn't do anything to change either the .aup file or the audio data.

If you receive an error message, always read it carefully. An Audacity project is a complex structure and there are countless ways that a project can be damaged - many of them beyond the control of the developers (for example, a while back we saw a number of Audacity users losing projects due to a v...

In that case, I don't understand what you mean by; "Note that Garageband does recognize the mono device."

mccicc wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:02 pm

Note that Garageband does recognize the mono device.

If you mean that Garageband can't record from the headset either, then that would suggest there's a problem with the headset.
Have you tried the headset mic with any other apps? (perhaps Skype)