Audacity Forum

If you look in Help > Show Log... it may shed some light on it. Gale Thanks Gale. That was helpful. The log showed that Audacity tried to use the lame_enc.dll specified in Preferences -> Libraries, got an unknown error, then went ...

... generous space on a fast drive. You can edit a long, complex show on a spinning hard drive, but an SSD can be significantly faster. Any of that help at all? Koz

I found the .cfg file and deleted it. That seems to have done the trick. Just done over an hour of work on my track without any audio problems.
I guess we can consider this problem solved now. I'll keep what you've said in mind in case it happens again.
Thanks for the help.

... music, but that will get done within Audacity - right? Still learning. By doing this, would I be able to tell if the mixer is bad? Thanks for any help you could give me.

... using 3.99.3, even though you "told it" to use the other one. (Audacity "tries" to load a version that works). If you look in Help > Show Log... it may shed some light on it. Gale

Thank you, I ended up using my computer's basic troubleshooter for the microphone and lo and behold, we have music.

... very short and the "Audio to buffer" setting is disregarded. For recordings where you don't want to listen to a previous track, does it help to turn "Overdub" off in that menu? If you need more help with 2.0.5, please post the information from Help > Audio Device Info... . ...

Thanks Gale, That makes a lot of sense and helps me understand this better! You're right, if they are that bad, I will find other downloads of the same song.. I do appreciate the help! Living in the "bush" of Alaska has been an adventure ...

I got rid of the really distorted ones, but hoping to salvage the ones that only barely touched the "red" sometimes. Have you used Normalize to bring the peaks down to say -6 dB? That may make the problem a little less audible. If the tracks have "flat topped" waveform, they hav...

... or F5) to drag the track to the right place. "" My latency correction is set to -39ms, and my Audio to buffer is set to 250ms. Any help getting going on this great software would be very appreciated. Thanks! Sam