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Apologize for not saying things correctly. Appreciate any opinion you have. I've recorded audio Cds already with the Sony and they sound good on stereo players. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything because I wasn't using the Grace unit. I meant I Made (recorded) audio cds from the cass...

Appreciate your answer WC. Understood most of what you said but a little lost too. Sorry. "The Grace device is a cassette deck with an onboard soundcard of its own which will deliver digitzed siganl to you PC via USB. It is unlikely to deliver anything like as high quality as a good well-maintained ...

A tutorial talked @ ports for the sound card. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Connecting_Up It said: "USB devices For better audio quality, many people use an USB audio device." This is better than using the blue line input port? (The light blue port is normally the line input port and...

Appreciate link to explain Audio Cache. It has good info. Still don't understand my situation. Don't know if I should change my settings in Preferences area. Just change them and see what happens? At tis point not sure what to change. ? For others that use Windows XP and audacity 1.3.13 What setting...

Thank you appreciate suggestions. "or if you had a very slow laptop." I'm on a desktop with Dual Quad CPU chip. 4 gb Ram "Audio cache" uses 20 MB of RAM per minute of stereo recording (at default quality settings) to make the recording. We're talking @ 20MB audacity uses compared to 4GB ram I have? ...

Audacity 1.3.13 Win Xp Home SP3 Ram = 4gb Hard drive space free = 192gb In edit -> prefrences -> directories there is a section for setting Audio Cache. Play and/or record using Ram ... etc. Currently mine is set with "check mark" to use this. Minumum Free memory (mb) is 16 Wonder if my settings are...

Trying to record cassette music tapes to Cd's. My previous posts said I used different cassette tape Players (devices) to record From. Constant problems of ticking, humming or other noise while recording. Any Audacity settings I change don't help. I'm Not blaming Audacity for the problems. It's the ...

Thank you for answer. Helpful.

Have been seeing CD-R Music discs to record to. Heard better than CD-R. Will it make a difference which CD to use? Afraid my old stereo may not be able to play that type disc. Have to buy 10 pack to try it and don't want to waste $$.

Thank you

Now back to Sony Player.
Moved recording sliders to 0.2 Increased volume of Player. That may have solved it. Don't think I hear ticking during recording. Perhaps motor sounds were being picked up. Wont know until make CD. Lets hope so.