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This usually turns out to be a problem with windows sound drivers. Help on upgrading them can be found here:
http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... ce_Drivers

There are a lot of reports rather like this, a lot of them being from Vista users who find that stereo doesn't work, for which we don't have much an answer except "talk to Ion": http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Vista_OS http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_tur...

What have you sent him in order to do the editing? It sounds like some part of the .aup file, _data folder and linked files have got detached so the cached waveforms are available but the audio data isn't.
http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... _to_others

There is also a fair history of the hardware being in some way duff so the DC motor servo just doesn't run at the right speed, or the ADCs are clocked so wrong that the pitch gets shifted.

In 1.2.6: Insert silence.
In 1.3.3: use the time shift tool to drag them along.

Don't cross-post. Posting your message more than once doesn't make us any more likely to do anything for you, just annoys everyone.

don't double-post - it will get read where you post it without posting it all over the place.

And? You don't say what your problem is or what you are having trouble doing. This page describes what I think you are trying to do:
http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... uter_or_CD

You don't say what CPU your system has, but I'm guessing it isn't x86, and so you are discovering that soundtouch isn't set up to build on non-x86 hardware. The best solution is to install soundtouch from your distribution (letting them worry about patches to make it compile) and then ./configure --...

That said, I wouldn't measure the performance of my sound card that way, at least not with those SPL-meter settings. The frequency axis of the analysis is obviously pretty coarse stepped (from the width of the peaks where the two tones are), and whilst that is probably fine for doing acoustic noise ...