Audacity Forum

Recording sounds playing on the computer is possible on Linux, in fact there are several ways to do it on Linux. One method is to use "PulseAudio". There is a detailed description for Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Stereo_mix_with_Ubuntu_10 Do you have a reaso...

Now I'm really wondering if I ever did indeed have "What you hear" on Vista. It's possible that you did but that a driver update disabled the feature. On the other hand perhaps you just had it on XP. The term "What U Hear" is only used by Creative Labs (SoundBlaster) as far as I...

I'm sure this is NOT an Audacity problem, I'm glad you realised that - saves a couple of messages. Support for "Stereo Mix" (also known as "What U Hear") is increasingly being dropped both by Microsoft and sound card manufacturers. If it is available, it is often hidden and disa...

how2win wrote:My problem is that I have no OPTIONS button.

Look in the "Help menu > About Audacity".
Which version of Audacity do you have?

In bright red, pink and blue above there is: If you require help using Audacity, please post on the forum board relevant to your operating system. Windows Mac OS X GNU/Linux and Unix-like Answering questions of this sort is impossible without knowing a bit about your set up. e.g. are you using Windo...

Out of all the boards on http://forum.audacityteam.org this is the most appropriate board, but overall, probably not. I'd personally prefer to see an offer to help the development of Audacity rather than a request to take developers away from Audacity. If any of your current developers are intereste...

I presume that you are using the built-in sound card? Note that built-in sound cards frequently have poor recording quality even on expensive machines. Have you disabled Windows sound "Enhancements"? If not, see here for how to do so: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Recording#enhanc...

Which Desktop are you using? Unity?
Does Audacity run correctly if you boot into fallback mode?

OK, I understand now. "Line In" is used when you want to record from something (such as a radio or an electric piano keyboard that is plugged into the "Line" recording input of the computer sound card. To record sounds that are playing on the computer, the preferred method is to ...

I would think that timming time off of beginning and endings of music files would be a commonplace macro (chain)! Perhaps surprisingly it does not seem to be very common. The question of trimming a set amount of time of the beginning/end of a file has come up before, but not very often. I would thi...