Audacity Forum

I have been recording songs from my record collection for some time now with great success . Today I went through my usual start up and I keep getting an error that says "Error while opening sound device .Please Check the input device setting and the Project sample rate". Yesterday I tried...

When I record my wav file the audio level is set normally. When I use Audio Converter to make my MP3 it is full of red lines indicating overdrive. Just wondering if there is a problem why my signal is being overdriven. There seems to be no way of lowering the gain in the Audio Converter. I have to g...