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... way of repairing these than going though and using the "Repair" effect manually on every one of the hundreds of these. Thanks for any help! dropouts.jpg

... See here for how to check and update the sound card drivers: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers If that does not help then you may need a new sound card.

cyberstasz wrote:Can you send me a link for combining two or more tracks?

This works for joining separate Audacity tracks which are one above the other into one longer track: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#join .

If you meant something else, please specify.


Gale

"Latency correction" is only a physical shift backwards of the track after you stop recording, so not relevant. Yes, try a longer "Audio to buffer" if it happens again. If for example there was a Windows update for your built-in computer playback device and it was not a good upda...

... playback combined. Do generic ASIO drivers like ASIO4all provide a per-application patchbay? I didn't think they used to, in which case ASIO won't help in Audacity even if you compile it with ASIO support. Gale

Preliminary trials without overdub seem to work. I suppose I could try 200 ms latency if I have more trouble?

I think the problem was more likely when recording with another existing track, even if that one was muted.

Latency was exactly 100, Overdub was on, Playthrough was off. I will try without Overdub. Would higher latency be helpful? What about Latency Correction? It is -130. Any clue why this might have started with little warning after long use with no problem? Problem seemed to happen more often when I ha...

Have you tried right-click over the speaker icon by the system clock > Recording Devices. Right-click over the line-in > Properties. Then click the "Advanced" tab. Does it help to choose a "stereo" option under Default Format?


Gale

Edit > Preferences, choose "Recording" on the left and make sure "Audio to buffer" is at least 100 milliseconds. Turn off Transport > Software Playthrough unless you need it. Are you append-recording to the end of the same track? If so this could be a bug (turn Transport > Overdu...

... I usually export to my music folder as either mp3 or wav. Should I be storing the .au and .dat files outside of audacity as well? Thanks for your help.