Audacity Forum

i intended to download the audacity 1.3.12 Oops - you've posted to the Audacity 1.2 part of the forum - I'll move it to the 1.3 section. The correct download site for Audacity is here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ It is safest to only down Audacity from the official Audacity web-site. The actu...

With any alpha software it is worth being cautious. The Audacity 1.3.x series is getting close to becoming 2.0 (and has been for quite a while). It is in "feature freeze" so that all development efforts are going into ironing out bugs and wrinkles for the 2.0 release, making it a relativel...

Thanks for the report somenick. I'll pass that on to the maintainer of that page. For standalone Lame, the rarewares always has good up to date builds as well as experimental alpha versions. However the rarewares builds are not recommended for use in Audacity for compatibility reasons. Rarewares als...

If you're using a USB microphone, it must be connected and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity.

You've probably either not set up Audacity to use the microphone, or not set up your computer to make the microphone available for recording. Why don't you tell us a bit more about your system, including which version of Windows, which exact version of Audacity (look in Help menu > About Audacity), ...

When you record from the turntable you will need to move the switch on the UFO 202 to the "phono" position.

Yes, follow the instructions here: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

I've moved this topic to the "Audacity 1.3.x / Windows" part of the forum (you can find the various forum sections from the index page ) You should update to Audacity 1.3.12 as it contains some important bug fixes. You can download it from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ If you pre...

Steve didn't mention this, but live recordings soak up hard drive space in a hurry. CD quality music goes by at about 10MB per minute. If you have a modest hard drive you may need to be very careful how you do music production. Audacity will not run into a full-ish hard drive and it will not work i...

Audacity really needs to record to an internal hard drive. External hard drives can cause problems as there is no guarantee that they will be accessible when Audacity needs them (which is all the time while recording). How much free disk space is there on your internal hard drive? What is the total ...