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Ensure that playback is stopped and not paused.
Most commands in Audacity require that playback is stopped.

From the manual (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/re ... html#setup):

Use device toolbar to set the input (recording) and output (playback) devices and set the channels to "2 (Stereo) Input Channels":

Did you do that?

As illustrated in this topic http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=75803 setting up latency correction is quite problematic for VI users. David's JAWs guide offers helpful advice) http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.0.5-Guide.html#latency-correction but the ste...

Will a usb audio interface connect to a usb mic No. A USB mic plugs directly into a USB port on your computer. A usb soundcard is out of the question since it won't connect to my usb mic. It seems that you already knew the answer. :? In most cases, changing the motherboard or even changing the whol...

First: I accidentally muted part of a track, how can I get the sound back? Is there an 'unmuting' button? It depends on how you "muted" it. Each audio track has a "Mute" button (and a "Solo" button). When the Mute button is pressed the entire track is muted and the wav...

You will need to tell us in more detail what you are doing (or trying to do) and what equipment you are using (including operating system and Audacity version).

See here in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ch ... ation.html

Sorry, can't find an edit button... might not be one on this forum. That's fine, just add a new post. It can get very confusing if posts are edited, particularly if there are already replies. I just tried another free (but not as nice) recording software and got similar results - extremely fast pla...

My guess is that you have installed ASIO drivers for the Akai, but no "Windows" drivers. Audacity cannot be shipped with support for ASIO due to licensing restrictions, so for Audacity to be able to use the device you must have Windows USB drivers installed for it. I suggest that you check...

The easy way is to use specialist Skype recording software such as "Pamela" (commercial non-free) or Skype Call Recorder (free, open source), or similar. There are ways of doing it with Audacity but the problem is that either you only get one side of the conversation clearly, or you need a...