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Would a full harddrive have anything to do with that? It was happening when my harddrive was full. I had to manually go into the temp folder and delete everything. Yes having no disk space would corrupt the project, but not normally in such large discrete chunks. If you open Audacity's Directories ...

... WIFI and turning off my Virus protection program while recording as suggested by DVDdoug - nothing has worked so far. Does changing the USB cable help? If not, I'm afraid you will have to go through every suggestion here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Managing_Computer_Resources_and_Drivers ...

... lowering the buffer to 50. Whew! Long journey for THAT bit of learning!! I hope this post will save others from my fate! Thanks again for all your help! Rikki

Hi ! I'm looking for an effect which could help me gain time. I'm podcasting with friends, but our microphones are cheap ones, so there is a lot of noise on each one's track. I usually clear every moment when the person who use the microphone ...

Yes, I'm Dalen and I'm set as the Admin. No, don't have Norton or any apps the clean my temp disk space. It seems like the problem just solved itself. I've been working on multiple projects and what I described didn't happen to them. Would a full harddrive have anything to do with that? It was happe...

I almost feel like forgetting the mic and going with an XLR to USB converter, but if it's the system... Since we are pretty sure it's power supply noise, a good quality USB Audio Interface that's not USB powered should be an improvement. You could try buying a regulated "linear" power sup...

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... that rate. Mismatched sample rates are a primary cause of recording and playback issues. Changing Audacity "Audio to buffer "might" help, but reducing the buffer usually only helps if it's really a playback problem. I don't know if this is related, but on both occasions I recorded ...

The help page I'm referring to is: Audacity - FAQ:Recording - Troubleshooting 11 How can I record without small skips or duplications? My current settings are: Latency Audio to Buffer: 100 milliseconds Latency Correction: -130 ...

I have a few comments that may help you and others: - See if you can listen to what you are recording. I can't tell you how to do that since I am not yet very experienced with Audacity. That way you should be able to hear what I think may ...