Audacity Forum

Hi all ... Windows 10.0.18363 (W10Pro), Audacity 2.4.1... Since the forced update from W7, which worked perfectly with Audacity, I cannot feed the soundcard output as the recording input. The Mic input pulldown shows only "Microsoft Sound Mapper" and "Microphone (Hi-definition audio"). Before the W1...

I prefer XLR too, but sometimes it's handier for the pod recording to just jack into the laptop directly. It works OK. Mostly I record .wav through the XLR input on my Zoom H5, then transfer the files to the laptop and use Audacity for editing and production.

Hi all ... I have a regular contributor to my pod who records his segment on his Win 7 computer and then e-mail sit to me for inclusion. For the last several years, this system has worked very well. This year, though, he has a new computer with Win 10 OS. He's using the same setup otherwise: a Samso...

Also, I'm familiar with USB-purposed mics. I had the Samson C01U and used it successfully for years.

Hey Koz ... Thanks for this ... I have an XLR-to-3.5-mm male, which I have been using to jack into the mic input. I also have a little 3.5-mm-to-USB connector that is actually meant for use as an output device—plug it into a USB port and get audio output that is cleaner than soundcard audio. Could I...

Thanks, Steve. I had thought of that but I am using only Microsoft Security Essentials and Super Anti-Spyware, neither of which appears to have any real-time scanning going on, and neither of which has a setting for program exceptions (just file and file-extension exceptions). Also, I thought that s...

Hi ... I have recently upgraded some recording equipment, one part of which has seen me replace my USB mic (a Samson C01U) with an XLR mic (Audio-Technica broadcast headset with boom mic). I made the change mostly for convenience—I record frequently, and setting up the Samson on a stand with a boom ...

Hi ... I've been having this issue with 2.2.3 and hoped the new version would fix it, but no luck. The issue is that when I have a file open, whether an imported .wav or .mp3 or .ogg file or a previously saved project, clicking the "Play" icon results in a 5-9 second lag before playback begins. If i...

Yikes. The updates are so poorly crafted that I don't like using them. Food for thought.

Hi all ... Longtime Audacity user, new to these boards... I've been noticing some extreme slowness in Audacity, and it has gotten worse in 2.2.2. When I click Play or Record (or use the spacebar for Play), there is often a lag of 10+ seconds, during part of which, the program reports "Not Responding...