Audacity Forum

Let me read back through the posts, to refresh my memory and figure out what seems to be working and what doesn't, and I'll get back to you.

PO'L

For me windows 7 assumes the USB is for speakers. This is actually a different question, and should be posted in a separate thread, but ... When you connect a USB device, Windows will assume it is intended for both recording and playback unless you tell it otherwise. In Audacity, Edit > Preferences...

In version 1.3, the "Devices" option in the preferences menu selects the recording and playback devices.

This page from the manual shows the layout of the Preference menu.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... references

PO'L

For Windows 7, you should be using the latest version, 1.3.12, available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows#recdown Click on the link for 2000/XP/Vista. For information on Audcaity and Windows 7, see here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Windows_7_OS and for information on how Aud...

Yes, go to File > Open Metadata Editor, fill in the data you want common to all tracks, and Save as a Template. It will appear for each track when you Export Multiple. Support for metadata is not standardised, and varies between file formats and applications. I'm not sure to what extent WMA supports...

Many of the experts here recommend CDBurnerXP.
http://cdburnerxp.se/

PO'L

Try the zip version of the download.

The zip version of 1.3.12 is available here:
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.12.zip

Copy the zip file to your offline PC and extract to the directory where you want Audacity to reside, (Usually C:Program FilesAudacity)

PO'L

Audacity Version 1.3 allows you to import a much wider range of file types than 1.2 does, because it supports the ffmpeg import/export library. The current version, 1.3.12 is available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ You will also need to install the ffmpeg library which you can get from her...

That screenshot shows clearly that the signal is being clipped before it gets into the computer, and suggests the clipping is happening before the Art preamp, if adjusting the gain on the Art reduces the level of the signal, but doesn't stop the clipping. Does the clipping indicator on the Art light...

Audacity needs instant, fast disk access when it is recording. If the disk is fragmented, and the computer has to look for places to put the data, or if it has to go off and do a complicated spreadsheet calculation in the middle of writing to disk, then the next chunk of audio has come and gone befo...