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For now, leave the project window open. If you close it without the first recording visible, it will be gone for good. I'll experiment some more. No, the first recording will be overwritten by the second I'm afraid in the scenario you quote, because cancelling the Timer Record is like doing Record,...

. When a Timer Record is actually recording, there is a difference between the "Stop" and "Cancel" buttons in the Timer Record progress dialogue. "Stop" stops the recording and preserves it (like the yellow Stop button in a manually started recording). "Cancel&quo...

Ok, I will try this, but its there anything thats specific with using the export function?, its just that in both cases on 2 differences XP machines this occurred. It worked fine until i saved the project and exported. Were you then trying to record into that project? Was the disk where you saved t...

For example, if a voice is panned to one side and background music is panned to the other side, then it will probably be easier to pick out what the voice is saying (less contrast) than if both voice and music are panned centre. Yes, so if you split the stereo track then run Contrast on each channe...

The text needed to reset audacity.cfg is NewPrefsInitialized=1 Audacity will ignore what you say you entered. You must quit Audacity before editing .cfg. If you have not added a "Portable Settings" folder to the Audacity installation folder then NewPrefsInitialized=1 will give Audacity fre...

And yes, compiling Audacity -- making a computer program -- is as scary as it sounds. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CompilingAudacityForBeginners I don't know that the tools are available fort Audacity 2.0 yet. How could we have released a Windows build of Audacity 2.0.0 if we could not build i...

The Recording Timer always shows tomorrows date. It will not go lower than todays date. If I go to the timer panel now it would show the lowest date will be 25th May & will not go to 24th May as it should do. Timer Record takes the date and time from the system time. You may want to right-click...

If you want to reset Audacity settings, uninstalling does not to do this. Please exit Audacity then follow the instructions here to reset the audacity.cfg file: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/preferences.html#stored . Then restart the computer, check the connections between the turnt...

Je ne parle pas français. 1.3.8 est obsolète depuis plusieurs années avec plus des bogues. SVP mettre à jour à 2.0.0: http://audacityteam.org/download/?lang=fr. Vous pouvez voir la saturation à Affichage > Montrer la saturation. Vous ne pouvez pas correcte facilement la saturation à moins que l'enre...

It's nice to see such "helpful" comments from the "Forum Staff." Let's hope this isn't representative of the quality of responses posted to ligitimate questions and problems! It really puts people at ease to post what may seem to be stupid questions to the "Forum Elite.&quo...