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Let us know if you get it to work. You're not the only poster who wanted to know something similar. This is a dialog, not a help desk.

Koz

what I have works well

Which is....?

If you have a live microphone in the room, you should be on headphones. Are you?

Koz

You can use the Audacity Devices Toolbar to switch Audacity to your turntable. You didn't tell us how your turntable is connected, so the switch will depend on that info. http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/device_toolbar.html If that fails, you may need to close Audacity and select the t...

File > New.

Then File > Import each audio file. They will arrive each on their own timeline. Select, Copy and Paste each one into the first timeline which should start blank.

Koz

You may not be doing this. There is a single-line sound pathway through the machine and you have two different branching sounds. You would need to record from two different sound devices at once, the folded back game sound and the straight-through microphone sound. Can't do that without convoluted c...

Sorry. One timeline screen. I'm displaying five minutes and I want to back up to the last five minutes with a hot key. You can't do that with the mouse time scroll cursor on a long show and I don't use auto play timeline update. Koz

Shift-Record is for Append Recording, not straight record. Press Stop and click once anywhere in the red recording meters and they will wake up and after a second, meter the computer input. That's a handy troubleshooting tip. Make sure the Device Toolbar has your USB Device selected. http://manual.a...

MP3s will do that, too, but you are warned against trying to do production or create new product in MP3. MP3 creates sound damage each time you make a new one. So they're only for listening. Koz

Correct me, but there's no hot key to back up (or go forward) one screen. Koz

Never do production in MP3. MP3 is a delivery format and it creates sound damage every time you use it. Far better to go back to the Audacity Projects -- which hopefully you saved and still open. Audacity doesn't have Append Import, it's a popular feature request, so you can shift-select or control...