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zachfromm wrote:Gale,

You seem to be the expert on this...

Sad to have to tell you - Gale was an Audacity usage expert - but sadly he died in August lat year.

WC

fretski wrote:

<face turns red>
I just found it, the playback tab has the HDMI-4 dropdown option, didn't notice it before
</face remains red for week>

sorry Steve, I know you don't need the likes of me!

Yeah - but we do like folk who are brave enough to fess up

WC

Or if you prefer the old behavior where the default is always record on a new track just go to Edit > Preferences and choose the Recording tab and check on the box for Always record on a new track WC THIS is how you handle a change in defaults like that. The Shift option is nice, but it's great to ...

I also repeated the tests with a audio the same length as yours 3 mins 10 secs.

2.0.6 took 5 seconds

2.1.3 thru 2.2.2 RC1 all took 4 seconds

so once again no slowdown observable.

WC

As a reported earlier in this thread - we did appear to have a slowdown on MP3 import for 2.2.0 amd 2.2.1 - but this looks to be fixed for 2.2.2 I spent some time this morning testing the export of one hours audio to MP3 files at default settings to both nu non-spinning SSD and my on-board spinning ...

See this page in the Manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tra ... ences.html

WC

Or if you prefer the old behavior where the default is always record on a new track

just go to Edit > Preferences and choose the Recording tab and check on the box for Always record on a new track

WC

See this page in the Audacity Manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/err ... evice.html

WC

netmask wrote:That fixed it, many thanks - so obvious when you actually read the details RTFM as they say!!!

It's only simple when you know how

this fooled me when I first started with Audacity 12 years ago when I digitized my LPs

WC

Go to Edit > Preferences and in the Recording section check on the Software playthrough of input And while you are there you may wish to un-check the overdub which is immediately above it - unless, that is, you want to do overdubbing. See this page in the Manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/...