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... And howto assign the length of audio to the a variable? I keep getting the following error:: sox FAIL pad: usage: {length[@position]} Can anyone help? I thought I could do this but DOS seems way too convoluted for my simple brain.

I really appreciate your help. I read the instructions at the links you provided and thought I had made sense of them. I put files back to where I THINK they came from, and was very hopeful when the message about an empty project did ...

... problem: there's a 1/4 second delay or so during the recording process itself. I've read countless threads on here, but none seem to be able to help. There is no hardware playthrough option for me to access, and when I try to search for the real time options in task manager I can't find a thing. ...

... on my laptop it comes out distorted and loud. And lastly during the recording, the tape plays slow, then speeds up. Can anyone take the time to help me with this?

Thank you Sir, you're a gentleman and a scholar. And a great help as well.
Clearly it's time for me to upgrade to the 1.3.n version -- last time I looked
it was still only a tentative beta, so I stayed away, but I gather it's stable now.

Best to you and yours,

-Blunderbus

... I don't know what to do, it seems that other people have had this problem but I have yet to find a forum where this issue has been solved, please help me....

... what functionality remains unclear or abstruse - no way, we are "blind" and cannot see the difficulties by ourselves - so we need help from outside to detect misunderstandable expressions etc. Thankls for doing this in advance - feel free to push us ;-) BTW: I'm writing this weekend ...

Hi Yellowshaker. That little thing is a beauty. I'm sure the forum can help you figure out your issues. The first step should probably be to clarify some of the terms you're using, so everyone can tell what you're aiming for. For example, what do you mean when ...

Upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12, it has a useful feature that makes this really easy. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Open or Import your track into Audacity 1.3.12 Click on the track name and from the drop-down menu select "Split Stereo to Mono". Delete the unwanted track. The new mono track...

... down)." If you go to Edit Menu > Preferences, click on "Interface" and un-tick the option "Closing last...."; it should help. Regards, GLM