Audacity Forum

I'm trying to get it to record only my microphone Select your microphone as the recording device in the device toolbar . If you need more help, please tell us: * Which version of Windows * Which version of Audacity (look in "Help > About Audacity") * What sort of microphone * How the micr...

Playing the recording AND recording video and sound on the same computer at the same time is likely to be difficult because the computer is being asked to handle multiple media streams in different directions from multiple sources. It's asking a lot from a standard Windows PC. Much easier would be t...

Is there any way to recover my files? I don't seem to have a data folder anywhere. For a recording that you saved, the audio data is in the _data folder. If you don't have that _data folder then you have no audio. Check on the machine that you recorded on, perhaps the folder is there (also check th...

The "AUP" file is only one small part of an Audacity project. The audio data is stored separately. This article in the manual covers everything you need to know about Audacity projects, how to manage them safely, and how to move recordings from one computer to another: http://manual.audaci...

Ensure that you have the USB device selected as the recording device in the device toolbar . Note that the USB device should be connected to the computer (and recognised by Windows) before you launch Audacity. If you launch Audacity first, you will need to "Rescan audio devices" (in the &q...

Audacity is a multitrack audio editor and has many features for both basic and highly advanced audio editing. It is not a video editor, or a "real-time" effect processor, or a MIDI editor. It is designed specifically for the task of editing digital audio. You can find some of Audacity's fe...

If you are happy with what you are currently using, then there is no need to use anything different.
Audacity does not do video.

Note: These steps won't work by default for Audacity 2.1.3 because 2.1.3 requires a minimum of gcc 4.9 but gcc 4.9 is not in the default Ubuntu 14.04 repositories. Follow Upgrade to gcc 4.9 to correct this. * The steps required to build Audacity 2.1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 are almost the same as for buil...

The relevant tutorials are here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... to_cd.html

You're recording audio playing on the computer. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html Koz Which links to this page for Windows: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html where you need to look at th...