Audacity Forum

The company supplies a connection diagram.

http://www.focusrite.com/products/audio ... p_diagram/

Note the connection to the computer or Digital Audio Workstation is always the USB cable.

Koz

As I reconstruct this in my head, you stopped using your old microphone and plugged this external soundcard into the computer in place of it. You can't do that. You are overloading the computer's audio input -- the new soundcard's signal is much, much louder than the old microphone. You are intended...

Or, maybe not. Now that we have time to look up the device, it's a video digitizer. It will produce a digital video file. I'll bet Audacity isn't going to know what to do with that. You must have gotten some simple editing and export software with the device. It would be pretty useless without it. Koz

Audacity doesn't Save sound files. It saves Projects which are works in progress. Audacity will Export a sound file for you, but you must be in Stop and not Pause for the tools to turn black.

Koz

Audacity doesn't actually edit MP3. It converts MP3 to a high quality internal format and edits that. When you export a new show, the MP3 quality and file size is entirely up to you. MP3 compression quality is set at the export step on Audacity 1.3, but it's set in Preferences in audacity 1.2 Becaus...

Had you captured it in Audacity and exported it as a WAV file, it would drop right into almost any sound editor on earth on three different computer platforms. I have no ideas what a PPP file is. Consult your instructions. Some sound devices and services (including Audacity) have a project file form...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

Some newer computers leave Stereo-Mix out. It's just not there. Then you have to resort to third party programs such as Total Recorder.

http://www.highcriteria.com/

Koz

Analyze > Silence Finder and Sound Finder.

Koz

You posted in a segment of the forum where we can't tell a thing about your system. Assuming Windows, you want to do something like this...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UCA202.jpg

That's a UCA-202 stereo adapter. The laptop would run Audacity to record the tape.

Koz

If you mean one whole track, that can be done with the MUTE button to the left of the track.

Koz