Audacity Forum

hi I have been posting with a similar problem

I am using XP with a Realtek soundcard,and my line-in won't record (although it will play from that fine)but I can record mono using MIC and resetting the Audacity setting to MIC.

Don't know if it is but it sounds like you have the same problem.

regards

koz thanks for that however i have already set all these and it still does not explain why i can record via mic when I set the value there but not via line-in when I change to that input. via line-in I can hear the vinyl playing through the pc speakers but the signals are not captured to file,some w...

no.....The line-in when used records nothing except an intermittent clicking, and I assumed it was a dodgy line-in socket, but i can play via line-in ok the mic socket records fine,it's as if the recorder cannot pick up the signal from line-in but can via mic. This led me to assume that separate cha...

....although having thought more about it,if the line-in socket were dodgy then it wouldn't play via it clearly would it?odd.it's just recording that doesn't work but does work using mic. could it be that the line in to the soundcard has a separate channel for play and record? I know b**** all about...

have sorted this out now appears my line-in socket is dodgy,worked ok on mic input but has recorded mono.thanks to those who contributed.

regards

abouttoNOTbinit

they are as it happens,thanks for your reply however it hasn't addressed the problem of not being able to record the sound. any suggestions appreciated, perhaps it will teach me not to be such a meanie and buy some decent software instead,appears from the littany of problems posted here that even if...

additional......have exported the file and saved it as .wav double clicking it starts windows mediaplayer
but no sound is played just a lot of hiss and crackle.

thanks for your reply,no I am just playing the unsaved file,do you mean I have to export it as a .wav before i can play it?And does this mean I can only listen to the track after it has been put on cd?Or can I save it to disc then play it? Have never used any software of this sort before so apologis...

Have installed as per the instructions,can hear the vinyl tracks playing through the line-in on the soundcard and through the pc speakers, the recording wave box is moving and the recording level meters are jumping with sound from the pc speakers but nothing records. When I stop the recorder and pla...