Audacity Forum

Thanks so much all of you for the help you have tried to extend. Even though the problem is yet to be fully understood and solved, you have certainly helped me think and diagnose. I am pretty sure now that the problem lies with my Mac computer, thus out of scope for this forum. I will discuss it wit...

The recording I am trying to save, is a rather plain rock song, written, performed and recorded together with some friends in the middle of the 80s. I am playing it from the very same cassette tape that we transferred it to back then. True, the sound quality on the cassette is not exactly brilliant,...

It was never my intention to blame Audacity. If I did so by mistake, I apologize. I have the deepest respect for all people who spend their time and knowledge creating free-ware for all of the rest of us, who don't have half the skills required for that. To me, a compatibility problem is not necessa...

Before rushing out to buy new cables, I tried one more thing: an older computer. It worked! Obviously there was nothing wrong with my cable (or any of the other cables of the same kind which I found in the house and which didn't work on my newer computer either), nor with the USB port. True, using a...

Thanks! I am really glad for your help, since the manual for the cassette player is not half as helpful as you are. We have a couple of older Macs in the family which are still running, so one of them will surely work!

Thanks! Will try that. Might be worth buying a new cable after all.

I am on MacOS 10.11.6, using Audacity 2.1.3, downloaded as .dmg. Sound is transported from my device into Audacity, but not the right sound, just a strange noise, indicating that the sound is compromised somewhere en route. Long story: I bought a simple Cassette to MP3 converter two years ago and ba...