Audacity Forum

I still can't see your computer
Please describe your set-up in detail and describe what you are doing and what is happening.

trickyt57 wrote:I think you can find the plug-in here, but I can't guarantee its the same one I found:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=21923

I see that it has come back to haunt me

I'll have a look and see if I can make it a bit more elegant (and fix the bug)

Audacity does not support recording or playing MIDI. To connect the MIDI keyboard to a computer you may need a MIDI interface, although some MIDI keyboards use USB. If you need a MIDI interface, quite a few (inexpensive) sound cards have a MIDI interface built in. Alternatively, you could use a stan...

It's probably due to one of the Windows "Enhancements". See here how to turn off the "Enhancements" http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... hancements

Audacity may be able to use fpMP3Enc as an external encoder. See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ex ... ogram.html
(I've not tried it myself).
More information about fpMP3Enc: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind ... 73790&st=0

According to the test results here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind ... ntry746331
128 kbps CBR is the slowest MP3 encoding for LAME.

CedricD wrote: Isn't it possible to code that Audacity uses multiple CPU cores?

Probably, but there's about 160,000 code lines in Audacity - it's not a small job.

Unlike some, let me address your question. I have an ASUS board with ALC892 and VinylStudio reports that, while it is capable of 192/24 output, the maximum recording sampling depth is 16-bit. Creative Audigy cards will record at 96/24. For much better quality M-Audio has a couple of cards under $10...

CedricD wrote:Isn't it possbile that Audacity may use about 80-90% from my CPU to export the file to an .mp3.

Probably not because Audacity does not support multiple CPU cores.

What MP3 settings are you using? VBR settings are likely to be a bit quicker than CBR.

What sort of cassette player? How does it connect to the computer?