Audacity Forum

Did you go through the steps in my previous response? Go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Sound > Input and you should see an option for "Line In" or similar. Select that. Connect the line outputs of the cassette deck to the line input jack of the iMac using a dual-RCA-to-miniplug cable. Leaving...

I went into system preferences > Security and Privacy..... Microphone shows up on the left, but Audacity doesn't show up on the right, under the list of apps that can access the microphone. What do I need to do to make it show up there? In Audacity, just start recording using the internal microphon...

Connect the mic to your computer. Go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Sound > Input. Does the microphone show up there? If it does, select it then talk into the mic and see if the input sound level meter bounces. If not, find out why. Now start Audacity. Does the mic show up in the Device Toolba...

The audio specs for you Mac are: Stereo speakers Dual microphones Headphone port Support for Apple iPhone headset with remote and microphone As far as I can tell your headphone port can not double as a microphone port. Did you try going to System Preferences > Sound > Input to see if your microphone...

Go to Apple menu > About this Mac and tell us which Mac you have (first line in the dialog, e.g. iMac mid 2010).

Also, exactly what mic are you attempting to connect (make and model please) and how are you connecting it (USB, input jack, etc)?
-- Bill

You are in luck. The mid-2010 iMac has a stereo line-in jack. Audio Built-in stereo speakers Two internal 17-watt high-efficiency amplifiers Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack) Audio line in/optical digital audio input (minijack) Built-in microphone Support for Apple iPhone headset wit...

Can you give us the steps that cause this to happen for you? We'd like to be able to track this down and fix it.
-- Bill

Which iMac? Go to Apple menu > About this Mac and tell us what the first line says.
-- Bill

We are tracking this issue in bug 1836.

As you can see from the bug description we have only seen this happen when the editing cursor is in the project rate box.

Can you give us the exact steps that lead to this happening for you?

-- Bill

Did the new key bindings you created involve the shift key?
-- Bill