Audacity Forum

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Audacity is only seeing 2 recording channels. Is this the device? http://intrl.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Sound/Sound-Cards-Video-Cards/4-Channel-PCI-Sound-Card-with-AC97-3D-Audio-Effects~PCISOUND4CH If so, it appears to have 2 recording channels (one stereo channel) with the "4 channel" ...

Thanks for the feedback Bob.
There's a user on the forum at the moment that has mysterious drop-out problems, so I'll mention this to him (http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 06#p183806 )

A bit of a long shot, but do you use Norton 360?

That surely calls for some smartass answer, like "because I'm using an obsolete version of Debian" :P Building from source is pretty easy on Debian, though I've only built recent versions of Audacity on current versions of Debian so you could run into some dependency issues on Debian 5. T...

I have the problem that audacity does't record the audio cassettes (neither waveforms nor playback). Please start a new topic on the forum board here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=46 Please read this topic before posting: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=63799

Topic moved to the Windows forum.

The current version of Audacity is 2.0 and you can get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Check that your sound card drivers are up to date and appropriate for Windows 7 64-bit. See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updat ... ce_Drivers

Open Audacity and go to "Help > Audio Device Info".
Wait a moment for the device information to appear.
Copy and paste that information into your reply.

What specification is your computer?

Have you tried error checking and defragmenting your hard drive?

Carefully check through what applications and processes are running on your computer. Close all non-essential applications and stop all non-essential processes, then make a test recording.