Audacity Forum

Are you using a cassette player that's connected to the computer via USB? When you connect a USB device, the computer hands over the sound pathways, in both directions, to the USB device, so it is trying to play back through the cassette player. In Windows Control Panel > Sounds and Audio > Audio ta...

There's one more step in the Lame installation process; you need to tell Audacity where the lame_enc.dll file is. Click Edit > Preferences > File Formats > Find Library Click "Yes" to the dialog box that asks "Would you like to locate lame_enc.dll now?" Browse to the folder where you put the file an...

See this page from the wiki, which explains how to split your recording into individual tracks.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Split ... ate_tracks

PO'L

If you generate silence from the start of the track to the start of the audio, it will be exported with the audio in the correct position on the timeline. If you have two or more clips on the one track, with gaps between them, Audacity will automatically generate silence in the gaps when you export,...

I'll second that; both manuals, and possibly the wiki home page as well. It would be very handy to have links to all the information together in one place.
And in a colour that will stand out against the blue background.

POL

If you click on Edit > Preferences > File Formats, and check the box that says "Make a copy of the file before editing (safer)", Audacity will copy the original file and save the audio as part of the project. Otherwise it just uses the original file while it is working, but doesn't keep the audio fr...

Please don't double-post. It confuses things for those who want to help you, and won't get your question answered any faster.

See my answer to your other post.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 27&t=24886

PO'L

This effect is available in version 1.3. In the Effect Menu, click on "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift". If you don't have version 1.3, the latest release, 1.3.11, is available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can have both 1.2 and 1.3 installed on your computer, but you can only have on...

This is a known bug in Audacity Version 1.3.10.

It is fixed in 1.3.11, which you can get from here:
http://audacityteam.org/download/

PO'L

So, I gather that the output on the mixer is the problem? That looks like it. However, before you spend money on repairs, there is an alternative you could try. There is a headphone output on the mixer, marked PHONES/CTRL, which you can use to connect to the NADY instead of the CD/Tape Output. It a...