Audacity Forum

danton01 wrote:What needs to be done in order to get this to work the way I've described

I don't think it's ever worked like that in Audacity. Perhaps you are thinking of some other application.
The Timeline and associated features are described in the manual here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html

danton01 wrote:I am using Audacity 2.0.2

Are you sure? That's a very old version. The current version is 2.1.2 and is available here: http://www.audacityteam.org/download/
Please check which version you have by looking in "Audacity > About Audacity" and update if necessary.

In Audacity versions up to and including the current 2.1.2 version, playback must be "stopped" (not just "paused") in order to apply effects. The exception to this rule is effects that have "real-time preview". This includes LADSPA effects (such as Hard Limiter and SC4)...

What are your settings in "Edit > Preferences > Effects"?

Audacity has "High Pass" and "Low Pass" filters. These are "Butterworth" filters: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/high_pass_filter.html http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/low_pass_filter.html The "Rolloff" setting is equivalent to the "filter order&quo...

So it seems that the signal from the phono pre-amp is fairly "hot", but not unduly so. A proper "line level" input should be able to handle it, so I'm in agreement with koz that the sound card (or its settings) would appear to be the problem. Windows will sometimes add +20 or +30...

*buntu tends to run quite a lot of background services which can slow it down a lot. Background indexing for "Search" applications can cripple old hardware, so may need to be disabled. Graphics acceleration is often a problem with old hardware, so a windows manager that does not use graphi...

When importing a certain song into Audacity the stram is cut off at a certain point. Assuming that you mean that the problem occurs with just this one MP3 and not others, my guess is that the MP3 contains invalid (corrupt) data. You could try converting the file to WAV format first using other tool...

heanner wrote:I'm loathe to download this

I don't think you should need additional software in order to select the audio output.
See: https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us ... =undefined

Initially, I tried feeding the phono pre's line-level output directly into the computer audio input, but the level was way too hot and I was getting The output from the pre-amp should be about right for a "line level" input. Do you have a hi-fi amplifier? If so, try connecting the output ...