Audacity Forum

The four horsemen of audio recording:

-- Echoes and room reverberation
-- Overload and Clipping
-- Compression Damage
-- Background Conversations
Koz

You can produce new, processed work with an MP3 editor that edits the raw original MP3 and doesn't try to take it apart like Audacity does. MP3Split works like that. The tools are very simple when you go that route. If you need the Audacity tools, then you can export as WAV and although very large, ...

but not in a CD player. Tell us more about this CD player. Only one, right? Can you get to a third player like the one in your car? Can you in some way try different blank CDs, or try burning at a different (usually slower) speed)? CD burning seems to be an ordinary process; we've been doing it for...

Audacity will open plain MP3 files without the lame software -- lame is an export module -- but it uses FFMpeg to open more modern compressed formats. Playing extremely fast is very typical of Audacity trying to open and play a music file it doesn't understand. So you do not have an MP3 file, you ha...

Please tell me you restarted the computer from a dead stop at least once...

Koz

I'm betting you do not have MP3 files.
Koz

"Real" quality sound goes by at 300MB per hour. That's 44100 sample rate, 16-bit, mono. Double for stereo. So you have compressed music files prepared in an unknown format. You should probably installed FFMpeg as well as lame. FFMpeg includes libraries and tools to open many more file type...

Yes, it's looking a lot like your computer is broken or in some way behaving badly. All, 100%, of the Windows solutions have failed for you. That's is extraordinarily rare. At least one of the tools and tricks always works and we can build on that to get your recording service working. You need to e...

The cable looked something like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/RCAMiniStereo.jpg That's normal so far, but you parted with reality when you said "Dell pc's line in input." Is your Dell a laptop? Does it actually have a stereo Line-In, or are you assuming that? Does it say Mic-I...

I think I get it. You may be running into Windows Conferencing, particularly since you have a new computer. Scroll down to Windows Conferencing. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/windowsRecording.html Newer Windows installs take a more more active role in sound processing than the older ones did. I...