Audacity Forum

Maybe not with the computer. There are other ways to record live performances. Many people use the Zoom recorders H2 through H4 or they maybe even higher now, as well as other personal recorders. Then transfer the work into Audacity for post production and conversion to final format. Koz I guess th...

It's not against the rules, but it's pretty scary because it means that in 24 time zones, nobody has a solution for you. Audacity can not be forced to access sound that Windows will not manage. No Windows services, no Audacity. All three major computer systems work like that. We're not singling out...

Not sure if bumping is against the rules, but I haven't been given a working solution yet...

By "better" computer I assume you mean a more modern one, right? If so this may be the cause of your problem. The choices that you get in that input selector dropdown are entirely dependent on your particular computer, its operating system, the soundcard and its associated drivers. See th...

kozikowski wrote:I do use Windows 2000 and Windows 98 which doesn't do you any good at all.

Koz

Yep, I'm afraid those are older than the computer I'm using...lol.

kozikowski wrote:Since I'm one of the Mac elves, I'm going to take one giant step backwards and let the Windows elves pick this up.

Koz

Lets hope someone with more Windows XP experience is online then.

Your example has Vista running on the second computer. You still need to be in the Windows Control Panel. Audacity is a complete slave to whatever the computer is doing. Some machines couple the two services so Audacity controls the Windows services. Some don't. Koz My mistake, the one at my house ...

Are you doing this in the Windows Control Panel, or the Audacity Input Panel? In Vista and Win7, you need to do everything in Windows. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel Sometimes you need to restart Audacity even after yo...

I'm not sure why, but on my current computer I can select a multitude of audio imput devices. (Microphone, Line In, Phone Line, Stereo and Mono) But for some reason, on a "better" computer, I cannot even select the recording imput device. Here are the specs of the one I can use them on: ht...