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want to convert from mic level to line level That's called a "microphone pre-amp". and maybe from line level to speaker level. That's a "power amplifier". As Irish pointed out, these are not "passive" devices but need to be powered. (unfortunate in a way, otherwise we ...

bgravato wrote:Audacity 1.2.4 is quite old.

It's not just old, it's ancient.

I've never had much success with Audacity 1.2.x on Linux - I managed to get it to run (as an experiment) but it was horribly unstable. The main problem was that it required so many obsolete libraries.

Steve_Col wrote:locate "C:Program FilesFFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll"

Does it "find" FFmpeg?

What sort of microphone are you using and how is it attached to the computer?

Do you think that writing an algorithm based on three or more samples (like I mentioned a few posts above) could help to recover a clean acapella? No I don't think it would help. Or maybe we could write an script that take the best parts of each samples and reassemble them to constitute a better ac...

King Stewart wrote:I read your post's about taking the vocals from the beat by aligning the instrumental and regular mp3 of the song but I can't figure out how to do it in Audacity.

What recordings do you have of the song?
What exactly are you trying to achieve?

If that's all that is listed, then Windows is not recognising your Mbox.
If Windows does not recognise the Mbox, then it is not available for Audacity to use.

Are you sure that your Mbox is correctly installed?
Do you have the Windows (WDM) drivers installed for the Mbox?

Create a "Chain" with the following commands:

Stereo to mono
Export Mp3

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Edit_Chains

Then apply the chain to your files.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Apply_Chain

See here for installing Lame for Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

Check which version of Audacity you are using (Help menu > About Audacity)
This sounds very much like a bug from Audacity a couple of versions ago (I think it was 1.3.10).
The current version is 1.3.12
http://audacityteam.org/download/