Audacity Forum

That's all covered in the wiki. It took us a while to get that together.
Koz

The instructions for this turntable are non technical and the pictures are all artist illustrations, not actual photos, so there are no good ways to tell what the connection on the back of the turntable are past knowing someone that has one. Or calling the company. It looks like the cable might be a...

you know i want to hear myself. That's the hard part. Most computer headphone connections deliver a live voice late because of internal processing delays. We recommend one of the hardware techniques that let you plug the headphones into the recording device, not the computer. Those work perfectly w...

One other common mistake. Only put the blank CD in the burner when iTunes asks for it. If you put it in first by accident, select "Ignore" from the mount dialog. Koz

In the case of a Mac, create an iTunes playlist with your desired songs in it. Then from the file dialog, Burn Playlist to a CD and follow the instructions. Newer Macs have been making this burn dialog harder to find, but it's still there (assuming your Mac has access to a CD burner).
Koz

Stop recording Data CDs and stop using CD-RW. CD-RW can sometimes be forced to work on some players if you do everything else absolutely correct, but single-use CD-R disks were designed for this task. Audio CDs can be made with a Music CD Authoring Program such as iTunes or Windows Media, not by dra...

The little black arrow to the left of your tracks is hiding some track management information. You should split up your tracks into the granularity you need for post production. If you need multiple stereo tracks, then that's what you have to produce. If you need multiple mono tracks, then things li...

USB sound devices don't go through the soundcard. Clicking can be caused by going through a USB hub. Stop that. USB Audio devices need a quality, short computer home run. There is one exception to that, but you're not likely to run into USB extensions. Before we go crazy with recording advice, did t...

I have ripped one track of a CD as a WAV file. (to experiment with) If I open the WAV file in Audacity I can play and edit in Audacity How did you do the rip? Windows XP should be able to record "Stereo Mix" with no extra craziness. It's only the later versions of Windows where they start...

Plug in the microphone system, let it settle, then launch Audacity. Not the other way around. Audacity: Edit > Preferences > Devices: Look for your USB Something. It may say the name of the device, it may say something like "USB Audio Device." In Quality start with 44100, 16-bit. In Device...