Hi all! Happy holidays.
I’m running Audacity 3.7 on a 2019 Mac Air. The Mac is updated as far as it can be. The latest OS is beyond its abilities.
I have a problem that crops up only often enough to be irritating: static and pops on playback that aren’t actually in the recording, but only on playback. I’m just editing an interview that, earlier in the day, was just fine. Now after a fresh start of the Mac, it’s popping on playback.
The pops/static move around. For example, in the phrase “I took the dog out for a walk” it might pop on “took” and “for a”. Then on another pass it pops only on “dog” and “walk”. Nothing abnormal in the waveform. Between that and the fact it was fine earlier, I know my problem isn’t in the recording.
This happened once when I was trying to edit a piece on a plane. Lagging and popping everywhere, to the point I gave up. No lag today, just the transient static.
I closed the project and reopened it. Same problem. And of course it’s due tomorrow!
Help, please?