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Sadly, I recorded myself directly in that audacity project, so there’s no external voice recording I could import. Time to restart again... Hi Stephie, so next time you make a recording like that, as soon as you finish and before you do anything else with Audacity, Export a safety backup WAV record...

In contrast when Saving a project the default is indeed do not overwrite (and this was very deliberately chosen as the default for projects: Overwite project default.png Personally I find the "Yes" overwrite as the default for audio file exports a more dangerous default choice as that risk...

For me on W10 with 2.4.2 (and with the latest test alpha test build I have for the upcoming 3.0.0) the default button in the dialog is the Yes for allowing overwrite: WC

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:53 pm

Does this tutorial help?

[writing that down]

Any idea who wrote that?

Bill did most of the original work back in 2007 - I did a fair amount on it in later years (you can view the page history of you log in to the alpha Manual)

Peter.

WASAPI loopback is for recording audio that is playing on the computer - on your onboard soundcard. I too have an Edirol UA-1EX (I need to nudge Windows to turn it on as an active device) . I have either a) my record deck plus preamp b) my tape deck c) my FM tuner connected to it via a SkyTronic mul...

Works fine for me too with Firefox

WC

I have added a link to this new Forum post in the bug thread.

I note that the bug, although a P3, still does not yet have a Release Note or Workaround.

And I'm not sure that we document this odd behavior - I'll have to check.

Peter.

Unfortunately it is not yet possible to turn this feature off. Actually you can turn it off the ability to make spectral selections - and that would avoid spectral labelling ... Just go to Spectrograms Preferences and un-check " Enable Spectral Selection " Please see: https://manual.audac...

Sorry, I didn't realize it was so difficult to convert 32-bit software to 64-bit. It's not difficult - in fact we have alpha 64-bit versions of the upcoming 3.0.0 (and I have tested them). As Steve said to you, we are a very small group of volunteers and not a major corporation and we therefore can...

And there's a new P1 close cousin bug just been logged
https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2570
Compressed or Lossless copies of projects from 2.4.2 cannot be opened in 3.0.0

Peter.