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I usually avoid the beta versions, but that is what I am using The 1.3 Betas are now very mature and approaching Release Candidate status so good to use for now - even for production usage. Once 2.0 is eventually released then you will probably want to avoid the early Betas like the plague. At the ...

See this articel in the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Vocal_Removal

When I transcibed my tapes I always wound the tape from end to end and back again before playing for capture. If you have a cheap-end deck be careful as the tape approaches the end as it may just thump the end of the tape and may damage it. More expensive decks tend to have braking systems that dete...

I normally amplify to a ceiling of -3.0 dB which is normally plenty loud enough while leaving a little headroom (as some players don't like audio files that go to the max. 0 dB apparently). And in 1.2 make sure that you use Amplify for this and not Normalize (as in 1.2 Normalize works on both your s...

1.3.13 runs very well and is very stable on both my XP machines - I would certainly advise upgrading.

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See this Wiki article: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer But note that a lot of modern PCs have had the abilityto record the audio playing on the computer either fully removed or deeply hidden in attampt to thwart piracy. Whether yours can do it or not is down...

In 1.3.x it should be automated - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Recovery

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The normal reason for this happening is that you have "imported" an audio file to edit and subsequently moved/renamed/deleted the original source audio file. Audacicy has 2 modes for "importing" audio: "Faster" which actually doesn't actually import but instead referenc...

Moderator note: consolidated this reply into the original thread Postby NCISabbyfan » Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:04 pm I've since gone through Device Manager and found two drivers "Realtek High Definition Audio" and "USB Audio CODEC". Both are Microsoft drivers, but if I do update these...

That's what the "Time Shift" tool is for - the little button with a short horizontal arrow with a head at each end

See this page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tools_Toolbar

And be sure to reselect the "Selection" Toll afterwards ...

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