voice recordings skipping on playback recently

Bethelia

Hello, I'm using the WavePad Master's Edition on windows xp pro. Everything was working fine till just a couple days ago. Suddenly my recordings have all these little sound drop outs so I have to re-record a section at a time till it sounds decent. This is quite a pain, recordings are taking three times longer then they used to. Have not made any changes that should have affected this, but I have been rather hoarse lately. Could that be the problem? I tried lowering the -db recording threshold but that did not seem to help. Any ideas? I could use some help, this is affecting my work.

Thank you!

Waaza

have you added any other software lately, or even new hardware, could be the computer is off doing something else to cause the dropout?

cheers

Waaza

Bethelia

Thanks for replying Waaza, I didn't realize anyone had responded.

I have tried to remove everything that's been added recently to see if that was the trouble but it still seems to be happening. I make recordings for work so it's vitally important that they sound professional, but every time I think I have a good take, I hear all these sound drop outs happening. I thought maybe it was the AutoTrim, so I tried lowering it to -40db and also turning it off completely, but it still seems to be happening. I have even upgraded my RAM from 1 gig to 2 thinking that would help, but it didn't help at all. Will have to keep troubleshooting I guess.

Thanks!

Beth