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Go to Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O and check the box that says "Play other tracks while recording new one"

WC

1.3.9 is pretty stable now - despite its labelling as "unstable"

WC

A little more info would help. What format files are you trying to import for instance? What version of Audacity - on what platform? You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support. Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC & MP2 in 1.3. If this is the case yo...

Sorry wlashack, I was working in a hurry and didn't your post properly - apologies. But I think that aaron is right - I don't think there are loop facilities in Audacity (I seem to recall previous posts about this getting negative responses). Aaron's workaround will work - but to try to avoid click/...

You can avoid the "frenzy of clicking" by turning off the metadata editor - go to Edit > Preferences > Import/Export and uncheck the box that says "Show Metadata Editor prior to export step" - it's an unfortunate default in Audacity which was done by the developers a whilke back ...

so i should be getting a left and right channels, two tracks,showing up on the meter although my recording was taped in mono. what is first birthday in mono? Yup two channels is what you want - "First birthday ...." is merely Koz' roundabout/shorthand way of saying that when you first ins...

You mentioned something about USB sound cards. That would seem to be a simpler installation. I have a desktop machine. Would that work for me? Any brand recommendations? Jack, see this sticky thread for reviews of USB soundcards that are known to work well with Audacity: http://forum.audacityteam.o...

Just to add to STF's advice about spectrum view - you may find the zooming in helps you spot the red line. Note that repairing the click is easier in 1.3 than in 1.2 - In 1.2 you will need to interpolate and redraw the soundcurve youself by hand/mouse. In 1.3, provided the click is less than 128 sou...

Yes - Audacity is a mult-track editor. We don't seem to have a Wiki feature or tutorial on multi track recording and editing (there was a post about this in the Feature Request section recently IIRC). However this tutorial on podcasts is very close to what you need to do: http://wiki.audacityteam.or...

One of the regular posters on the forum, Stevethefiddle, uses one of these and is very happy with it. When I bought a soundcard my shortlist was was down to this one or the Edirol UA-1EX which was more expensive but had some extra features that I needed. See this sticky thread for soundcard reviews:...