Audacity Forum

What are you trying to record?
Are you using a USB microphone? USB turntable? radio plugged into the Line In of a desktop computer? ....
Which version of Windows.

All we can say so far is that Audacity is not receiving an audio signal, or at least, not one big enough to show up on the audio track.

In Audacity 1.3.x you can type the exact length required directly into the "Genhttp://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Selectionerate Silence" interface. If the Generate Silence interface shows "seconds" but you need millisecond, or sample accuracy, click on the little downwa...

Re. the tutorial: He is using Audacity 1.2.6 which is now very old and not recommended as it has known problems on modern machines. Use Audacity 1.3.14 which you can get here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ An important step that he missed out from the tutorial is that you need to reduce the leve...

Some recording problems need to be avoided in the recording stage as they can't be repaired later. Recording something too loud will cause "distortion" and it will sound "crunchy and crackly". This is almost impossible to repair. A "horrible echoing sound" is usually a ...

See this tutorial: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... e_computer
Alternatively, use the paid version of Finale.

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In the Transport menu, turn off (deselect) "Software Playthrough".

Create a new folder on your computer. Copy the folder "César Céspedes_data" and the file "César Céspedes.aup" into the new folder. Open the file "César Céspedes.aup" in a text editor and delete the line: <tag name="TITLE" value="@sÌ&#x0003;d Effects -...

You're welcome Dave. Hope you're not waiting too long for your lead :) Audacity is a very "capable" audio program, relatively simple to get started with, but very powerful when you start getting into the detail. Two ways that I have found that are really good for getting to know Audacity: ...

PeatSki wrote: It's still not as loud as I'd like it as an mp3

Modern commercial recordings are often very loud - some would say "too loud". Interesting article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

The link jmdaniel provided says, after setting up the input device: "If there is no indication on the Input level meter, stop now and figure out why." It then says: "You may need to use Audio Midi Setup to configure the USB device before the Mac will recognize it. See the section bel...