Audacity Forum

You can check the version number by looking in "Help menu > About Audacity".

You've got an old version of Audacity at home. Regular Interval Labels was moved to the Tools menu a couple of versions ago.
The current version is 2.3.3 and is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

It may be helpful for other users if we could establish where these two different versions of Audacity come from, and what the difference is.
Do you have any PPA's enabled?
If you look in "Help > About Audacity", what is the version number of the new version that works?

If I do an RMS normalization, then do a Peak normalization on the results, the RMS normalization changes to the point where it no longer passes the ACX Check that it passed before Peak was applied. That is to be expected. The RMS normalize amplifies the audio to the specified level (based on the RM...

Very very strange.

Look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Directories"
Where does it say that Audacity's temp folder is located?

How are you launching Audacity? Have you given permission for Audacity to run? The way to do that is to launch Audacity from the Dock with "Right click" and select "Open". By default, Gatekeeper will complain that the developer cannot be verified, so you need to confirm that you ...

The current version of Audacity is 2.3.3. It is available (free) via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ I would strongly advise that you don't directly overwrite the original files. If anything goes wrong, you could permanently lose the recordings. Much better to ex...

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Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:40 am

I'd like to find out what is the cause of those clicks generically, and how to eliminate the cause (generically).

Unfortunately there are many things that can cause clicks. Some troubleshooting hints here: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mana ... nd_Drivers

If you are recording from a microphone, ensure that you use headphones and not speakers for playback.

In Audacity, you would record the new part into a new track. ("Shift + Record" or "Shift + R"). The "bad" part of the original recording may be cut out with "Split Cut" or "Split Delete" ("Edit menu > Remove Special > Split Cut" https://man...