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"Stereo Mix" records whatever is playing out of the sound card.
Specifically "Stereo Mix Realtek" will record whatever is playing out of the RealTek sound card.

I installed audacity Which "Audacity"? version numbers go from 1.0 to 1.3.13 and there are "ANSI" versions and "Unicode" versions. Look in "Help > About Audacity" to see exactly which version you have. I tryed installing an autotune feature... What "auto...

It was also most like it stopped recording the actual sound from the mixer and started recording a microphone from my laptop, possibly?? This has come up at least once before with the Serato Scratch Live on a Mac. Unfortunately I don't think it has ever been resolved. Is this some weird driver prob...

Labels can also be Exported (and Imported) http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Label_Tracks#export

Is the recording more noisy than the original cassette?

anyway with Ubuntu 11.10 will be the only choice. Not really, it's only a couple of clicks away. Although the Gnome Desktop is not included in the default installation, it is in the Ubuntu 11.10 repository and may be installed either with apt, or with the Ubuntu Software Centre. I admit that I'm no...

dksboy wrote:MP3 at 44100

44100 is not the "bit rate". That's the "sample rate".

See here how to set the MP3 bit rate: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/MP3_Export_Options
If the bit rate is too low, the sound quality will suffer.

Or use a speech synthesizer - there are some quite good ones available on-line. (search for text to speech)

As with many Nyquist plug-ins, processing very long shows with Chris's compressor can be very slow. The built-in compressor in Audacity 1.3.13 is very much faster. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Compressor I'd not recommend the built-in compressor in Audacity 1.2.x Processing very large files ca...

The standard (.exe) installation of Audacity 1.3.13 for Windows includes a recent version of the manual in the Help menu.
There is also a lot of additional help in the Audacity wiki http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audac ... _Home_Page