Audacity Forum

Are you going through a USB hub on the way to the Mac? USB audio demands home runs for the cables. Is the Mac doing anything else while you're trying to capture? Do you leave tons of applications "sleeping" in the dock when you do work? Restart the Mac and start a vinyl capture before you ...

If you press Spacebar Play, does the music play? Koz

No. 2.5mm is the connection to a tiny personal recorder. You're after 3.5mm like this. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/stereoJumper.jpg This one's stereo. not mono, so yours will have one dark ring on the shaft instead of two. There is another way to get there. Use my cable and one of these t...

it would be a great start to phasing out my old, unreliable Mac G4. Just a note that Audacity isn't a "WAV Editor." It has some interesting biases to production audio editing rather than sample- by-sample scientific editing. Audacity doesn't edit MP3. It pulls MP3s inside itself, converts...

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices and make sure Audacity is looking at your internal microphone. Sometimes the built-in microphone doesn't work until you select "Mono" instead of "Stereo." Back at the Audacity main screen, make the meters much larger by click-dragging the r...

You may have maneuvered your way into a corner. The computer may not be powerful or fast enough to run 2.0.3 and 1.2 was abandoned a long time ago for stability problems. None of the Audacity versions are recommended for surveillance, or serious multi-hour recordings. You may be able to help with th...

We can't see what you're doing, so you'll have to fill in a few of the holes. You played a vinyl record on your new USB turntable and recorded it in Audacity? Did the red recording meters jump while the music was playing? The default Audacity meters are way too small for normal use. You can make the...

Audacity doesn't speak MIDI, so all the work will need to be sound services. If the computer is actually creating the sound, then you will need to set up Audacity to "record streaming sound", or Self Record. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_compu...

How are you going to get somebody to hit two separated thin wires in the same shot? Can I watch?
Koz

Bring the Mic-In connection out and split off the 5volt ring battery connection. Scroll down to the second illustration. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnectors/audioconnectors.html Connect that battery to a sensor wire which then goes to the Left of the stereo Line-In and also connect that to ano...