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You missed an important piece of this. If you're on a Laptop, you may not have a physical Line-In to switch to. Many PC laptops have only Mic-In.

Koz

Too advanced. I'm starting with a too-large blank hard drive and various startup CDs most of which are inappropriate. When I got it, I had to leave the System Drive behind because the valuable data belonged to somebody else. The up side is that I know the machine is in good condition and used to wor...

<<<about making good recordings louder without harming sound quality?>>> You don't. If you have satisfied the basic requirement of the show being as loud as possible without clipping or pushing the show to "zero" (Normalize can be helpful here) then everything else you do creates damage. Y...

Now you know why Apple insisted on Boot Camp for a while. I bet this doesn't happen when you have either operating system running by itself. Audacity doesn't like "magic" or shared devices and services.

Koz

<<<When i'm trying to create track>>>

What are you trying to put on this track? Give a little push here.

Koz

If you search the forums for troubles with USB turntables, you will get billions and billions of hits. This happens to a lot of people. We tell people the best and most reliable solution is to stop using the USB cables. http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2259&p=8840#p8840 Koz

<<<I want to use a fade in, or fade out that follows a convex curve>>> I once complained that the gray value modification tools in Corel Draw were extremely painful to use. You had to move each and every graphical control point and try to make them look good--all manually. I went on at some length h...

<<<how can I edit or create my own audio track by drawing waveforms?>>> That is how. This is why people buy synths and keyboards. This is the same shock people get when they find out that to animate a movie, you have to draw every single frame, 24 of them per second of movie, for a 90 minute show. <...

<<<your voice equalizer, you have reduced the volume of frequencies at about 3000 hz? That one frequency can make voices less harmonious, so you mute it?>>> Right around 3000 is the place where fingernails go when you rake them down a blackboard. That's also the major peak in the Fletcher-Munsen lou...

You got dangerously close to telling us what the microphone is and how it's connected.

Koz