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Audacity checks for new devices when it starts. Restart Audacity with everything plugged in.

If it still doesn't arrive, you may have a Windows problem. This is the microphone version of your problem.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 15#p259170

Koz

The computer sees the Blue Icicle and knows its a audio device but it appears that it will not work because there is no Device Driver with it. You left a hole there. Will not work where? Win7 has a sound control panel with a little bouncing sound meter. Do you get the bouncing sound meter when you ...

The two longest threads on the forum are bruno and Ian. One recording an acoustic guitar and the other his voice. Bruno went through equipment and environmental changes to get his product out, but Ian was using the same microphone at the beginning and the end. All of his fixes were environment impro...

Feel free to address the issue here on the forum so the maximum number of people can benefit from it.
Koz

Post a high quality MP3 on the forum (or any posting service of your choice) of what you sound like immediately after a recording session, but before you make any adjustments or changes. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 There's a very common problem where inexperienced an...

How many different ways are you playing the CD? Does it work in your car? Your mum's computer? Stand-alone CD/DVD/BlueRay player?

Koz

My pathetic excuse for a studio is the upstairs room of my house, complete with wooden walls, thin carpet floor, the sitting in and facing basically an alcove. Acoustic Notes: Parallel walls kill you much faster than hard ones do. We had a "Sound Room" in an old building whose claim to fa...

There's not enough information in your posting to help. Describe exactly what you're doing. Where is the music coming from? How is the microphone connected? Pretend you're calling your brother on the phone to tell him how to do what you're doing.

Koz

Which MacBook Pro and how old? Does it have connections like this? http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg If it does you can use a straight whatever-the-keyboard is to 1/8" Stereo. Plug the 1/8" stereo into the thin black circle with two black arrows. That's the Built-In Line...

I must be getting old but my head hurt when I tried to figure those out. Age is not a requirement for befuddlement. One of the world-class IT guys let me use one of his machines once with a well-known program on it. "I had trouble using it." he said. Since I kneel in his shadow, what chan...