Audacity Forum

Uninstalling Audacity won't fix the problem because the problem is not in Audacity. The problem is that either the input signal is just too hot (too big a signal going into the Analogue to Digital converters) or Vista is messing with the sound. The first of these can happen if the vinyl has been rec...

Why are you using a low sample rate for the recording?

Audacity 1.3 is able to export through external encoders such as LAME and SoX using an option in the Export menu. An overview of this is described in the manual http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Exporting_to_an_External_Program Here's the examples of Command Line export options from the Audacity ma...

There doesn't seem to be a setting for a mono MP3 file. Correct. If you export a mono track it makes no difference if the Lame encoding options are set to "Joint Stereo" or "Stereo". If the Exported mix from Audacity has 1 channel (mono), Lame will produce a mono file. If the Ex...

What program are you using to edit the file?

We've really got no idea what you are doing or what your set-up is.
What sort of sound card? What sort of microphone? How are you recording? Where is the microphone in relation to you? Singing, talking, whispering, shouting?
You need to describe what and how because we can't see you.

There is always some loss of sound quality when you compress as MP3. The more you compress, the smaller the file size but the lower the sound quality. It's a trade-off, "file size" : "sound quality". Audacity is set by default to produce reasonable quality stereo music, hence the...

Does the microphone have a USB plug on it?

Audacity 1.2 does not support WMA files. You need Audacity 1.3.12 and FFMpeg. (see links below) http://audacityteam.org/download/ http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg If the problem with no sound persists after upgrading Audacity, please give det...

If they are all the same format you can join them end-to-end using SoX http://sox.sourceforge.net/ The command would be of the form: sox file-1 file-2 file-3 .... file-n output-file For example if you had 3 files called "file1.wav" "file2.wav" "file3.wav" then you could...