Audacity Forum

Have a look in the Windows Sound Control Panel and see if the cassette is listed as a recording device.

Those are the (only) devices that are available for Audacity to use.
For alternative ways to record sound that is playing on your computer (streaming audio), see the notes here: Windows Sound Control Panel.

There's a free demo version of "True Piano" that may be worth trying: http://www.truepianos.com/

lindsmith88 wrote:What should I put the audio settings at to try to keep the recording as close to the original voicemail as possible?

Use the Audacity default settings - sample rate = 44100. Sample format = 32 bit (float). Export as "WAV Microsoft 16 bit PCM" (default).

You may be right - they appear to have changed the licensing terms since the last time I looked (some years ago). They seem to be tightening up on their profiteering racket before their patents run out ;) Fortunately I live in a country where their licensing terms are illegal and I don't use MP3s an...

When you say "fragmented", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that there are lots of small files?
Please describe step-by-step what you are doing and we may be able to see where you are going wrong.

What do you have set as the recording input device in the Device Toolbar?
What other options are there?

Perhaps it was something completely different and the apparent association with installing Audacity was just a strange coincidence? Out of the millions of Audacity users on Windows 7 I've not hear of this problem before

lindsmith88 wrote:Are you talking about the input device?

Yes.

lindsmith88 wrote:the other options are "Microsoft sound mapper," "External mic," and "Stereo mix."

You probably need to set it to "External mic".

Probably nothing. The Risset Drum generator produces one "boing" sound. If you wish to repeat the sound many times, generate one "boing" then, while the sound is selected, "Effect menu > Repeat..." (about 2/3rds of the way down the list), and enter the number of times y...