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... the error 'Error while opening sound device. Please check the recording device settings and the project sample rate' noise.wav Thank you for your help!!

... Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate. So far Bing searches give me notta for helping with this issue and have used Audacity before for a podcast and am mod familiar with the interface... Any help appreciated...thanks in advance!

Operating system in question is OSX 10.9.5 and I was using the latest Git version as of a last week. Crashing upon attempting to plot spectrum is as regular as a swiss watch. Crashes are so brutal that the bug reporting mechanism hangs on the beach-ball-rainbow of death until the program is force-qu...

... then me give this a shot? I'm not anywhere near new to Audacity, but cleaning up vinyls with distortion like this is beyond the skills I know. Any help is greatly appreciated! :D Here's a link to the 1 song I have right now: https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nsmvrxt8UQ1qjwwq4o1.mp3

... to change the tool in the menus. I quite like the idea of showing shortcuts in toolbar tooltips but one of the developers does not, preferring help buttons. So the experiment with showing shortcuts in tooltips for Transport Toolbar has not been extended. Do you mean he prefers context-sensitive ...

... on, so you have somewhere to go back to. See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_opening_and_saving_files.html#backup . If you look in Help > Show Log... there may be some information, but basically Audacity can no longer read whatever folder the audio data is in, or the data has been ...

Thanks very much for your help. I used Sox and the example bat file that comes with the installation. I modified the bat file for 48 kHz resampling and could drag a batch of files onto the bat file in windows explorer. It let me do about ...

... change tool while typing in labels. I quite like the idea of showing shortcuts in toolbar tooltips but one of the developers does not, preferring help buttons. So the experiment with showing shortcuts in tooltips for Transport Toolbar has not been extended. Gale

... to buffer". It will probably fail, so try 10 milliseconds and increment upwards by 10 milliseconds until you get a good recording. This may help the dropouts. If it does not, take the buffer much higher, say 200 milliseconds, but you may get clicks. Make sure you are running as few other ...

Thanks for the help. Unless I was looking at the wrong Help file, it said to use "c" and not <CTRL> + Play. If the help file is wrong, how do I report the error?