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I created all my MP3 clips and it got too late to continue. What's supposed to happen to the history and what's broken? I've never looked in there.

Koz

I don't have extended music clips, but try to play the piano solo and the organ finale from here... http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html They should sound like a grand piano and a cathedral organ. I will admit being attracted to the idea of solving a problem from someone who is making no obviou...

<<<My problem is the poor quality of the Audacity-recorded sound when played back in Audacity. >>>

But everything else played back in Audacity sounds fine?

The Audacity recordings sound OK played back somewhere else?

So you have Skype?

Do you regularly record internet audio?

Koz

There is a tutorial devoted to this...

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

Koz

<<<Also, I have Windows 7 and I can't get it to record internal audio.>>> Separate problem, but no, you can't. Neither can anybody else. Win7 left that tool out. Your choices are to use a USB sound device like the UCA202 we reviewed here... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477...

I do use Windows 2000 and Windows 98 which doesn't do you any good at all.

Koz

The mixer out and the computer Microphone-In are fundamentally incompatible with each other. You really do need the Line-In on the back of the machine. That's actually interesting. It's crackling even though you used the wrong connection on your sound card. That eliminates some of the causes of the ...

Since I'm one of the Mac elves, I'm going to take one giant step backwards and let the Windows elves pick this up.

Koz

No, no. Calm down. I need to think about this a minute. If you play the work back immediately after you record it, it's noisy then, right? Is there a way to plug headphones into the mixer and is the performance noisy there? This is messy now. You messed up a perfectly wonderful technical explanation...

Your example has Vista running on the second computer.

You still need to be in the Windows Control Panel. Audacity is a complete slave to whatever the computer is doing. Some machines couple the two services so Audacity controls the Windows services. Some don't.

Koz