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PC Laptop built-in microphones are usually rubbish quality. An external microphone will make a big improvement, but the microphone inputs on laptops are also usually pretty poor. If you're looking for at least half decent sound quality for voice recordings on a PC laptop with minimal expense, a USB ...

The usual way to make podcasts with music is to import the music tracks into Audacity, and record the voice on a different track. If you then want either the music on its own or the voice on it's own, you can achieve this perfectly by muting the unwanted track(s). Once the voice and music have been ...

Check the sound card settings in the Windows Control Panel.
In particular, check the recording volume and switch off any "Advanced enhancements" (such as echo cancellation, noise removal, automatic gain...)

You will need to give a lot more information about your equipment, your computer, how it is all set up and what you are doing.
Alternatively you may be able to work out how to proceed from this information: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Trans ... uter_or_CD

dj mr smith wrote:hi im having similar trouble, i under stand how to split up my mix using the labels and to burn to cd ,but what if i wanted to upload my mix with tracks split to mixcloud?...

That's not an Audacity issue. Check the mixcloud documentation, they should be able to explain how to use their service.

Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O

Select the playback device that you want to use.

Windows only looks at the drivers that are on your computer and any generic drivers that it has. It does not check the manufacturers web site- you should do that manually.

jmdraft wrote:I realize that this question is in a different topic but can you direct me to instructions for importing and editing wma files?

See here http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 16&t=54187

So how about adding those ghost lines to the vertical scale, would you still consider that option? It's not up to me :) but personally I find that in most cases I can judge close enough without horizontal rules. If I specifically need to know the exact peak amplitude at any point, I can select the ...