Audacity Forum

batteredbison wrote:It is a long audiobook, 33 hours long.

Are you using Audacity 2.1.2 from http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows?


Gale

supervolens wrote:I test sound card audio tester 3.0 with real signal.all is good.

Is DFX Audio Enhancer influencing those results?


Gale

Thanks for testing. I marked the topic [SOLVED] and locked it.

Audacity settings at present are : MME, CD Audio (Realtek HD), 2 (Stereo Recording), Dig. Output(RCA+Optical), Project Rate 44100 Sound settings presently are: Playback: Speakers (RealtekHD Audio) Default ; Dig. Output (RCA +optical) Ready; Realtek Digital Output Ready Recording: CD Audio (RealtekH...

If the problem is playing a file outside Audacity, see Why have I lost sound after connecting a USB device on Windows?.


Gale

It's possible the problem was related to not having enough disk space on the drive you were working on. Each of those editing actions you were doing take up space for undo and redo until you close the project. Using an old version of Audacity doesn't help. Although I assume it is not your problem, ...

the contents of the project got deleted right before I saved by sheer bad luck That's pretty deadly right there. I may be able to save you a lot of work. If you can see some of the little AU files, try to play them in Audacity (but don't save anything). Because of the way your Project failed, I'm b...

All that is irrelevant, so you don't need to understand it. You don't have an unedited recording. Gale If you do go the separate drive and folder route, remember this is an Audacity Project.. It doesn't matter where you put them, but they have to stay together. Close Audacity and use Windows Copy. I...

I posted that in case there was something in there that could be helpful. That process is for shows where the _DATA folder was OK, but the AUP project manager went missing or was damaged. That's not what you have. If you have a massive project, that's not going to work anyway. That process tries to...

I started thinking about the soundcard drivers and even though the PC stated that they were the most current, I went to the creative website and noted that the date on the drivers was much more current than the ones described via the device manager on my PC. Yes that is a common problem. Device Man...