Audacity Forum

One more. If you're on Win7/Vista, you should also be on Audacity 1.3, not 1.2.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/update.txt

Koz

When you plugged the USB headset into the machine, Windows should have registered it and it should be visible in the Windows Control Panels > Sound. Is it? Audacity is a complete slave to what the computer is doing. If the computer can't find your headset, then Audacity will not be able to find it, ...

(the manufacturers are doing this to try to thwart piracy) And in addition, recording music playing on your computer reduces the stability of the machine. It's one reason you can't do this on a Mac at all without additional software. Win7 and Vista machines are business and corporate communications...

Is that different from Total Recorder? Are they siblings?
Koz

And this...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/wind ... rding.html

Koz

There is no iTouch. Are we talking about personal recordings you made on your Apple iPod Touch? Almost without doubt those are made with Apple AAC compression. Install FFMpeg from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ ... to make Audacity recognize and manage them. You should get Audacity 1.3 wh...

Audacity doesn't have "trial" versions. Uninstall what you have (if it lets you) and install Audacity 1.3 from here.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

I also added the instrumental to the song I was singing so I could mash them together.

Can you press "mute" on the music track (to the left) and play your voice track only?

Koz

I"d be listening on a good quality sound system or headphones once while paying attention and once again without -- like doing dishes. If you suddenly notice it's awfully quiet or suddenly have to pay attention because the show got louder, then you have your answer. I personally use Chris's Com...

Unless you have a really old machine, you should probably be using Audacity 1.3, not 1.2. You can install both versions. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/update.txt Then have a read through this. It's in rewrite, but the main points are there. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/windowsRecording.ht...