Audacity was working great on Windows 11 (3.7.7). Suddenly the quality of the music recordings became terrible. They lack depth (sound tinny and flat). Even copying factory music CD’s.
Any suggestions
(I already tried uninstalling and re installing the program)
Judging by the number of similar reports it appears that Windows audio ‘enhancements’ might need disabling. You can find out how to do that by searching Google or the forum itself. I don’t use Windows.
Typically, you wouldn’t record CDs at all, you would rip them using something like EAC - (Exact Audio Copy) or fre:ac.
I’m pretty computer illiterate. I will delve into changing windows settings
I have no clue what EAC is( but I will investigate).
And I loath Windows11.
It’s just so odd that it worked so good on one day, and so poorly the next ,without changing any settings.
Thanks for your response
Sadly, you and hundreds of millions of other people.
Which is what prompts me to think it’s the audio enhancements. Apparently, they get enabled again after some system updates. Microsoft knows best! 
I hope you get it sorted.
It’s a CD “ripping” application. You need something like this because audio CDs don’t have “computer files”
The ripping application gets the digital audio data off of the CD. It can “repackage” the data as a lossless WAV or FLAC file and in this case the audio will be digitally identical to the CD. AKA it can be “bit perfect”.
Or it can be converted to MP3, etc.
In any case, it’s faster and easier than “recording” and you can get better quality.
Well, I disabled the windows enhancements and it stopped the muddy sound. It worked for 7 tracks then stopped recording altogether.
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