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Thanks, that screenshot shows exactly the right thing :) The "Recording" device (in Preferences) is set to " RealTek " which is the computer's internal sound card. "Stereo Mix" in the "Device Toolbar" shows the specific input that is selected for the "Dev...

1) Update to Audacity 1.3.12 (it contains a couple of important bug fixes)
2) "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" and set the Recording and Playback devices to "Microsoft Sound Mapper".

I think you'll find that it doesn't.

Good luck with it Edgar, and a happy Christmas.

May not be able to help much. The recording quality is down to your sound card. Does the recording sound bad when you play back the recording in Audacity, or does it sound OK in Audacity and bad after you export it? Check your sound card settings and see if there are any effects turned on. Are you r...

"In the right" ?
Could you post a screenshot.

jmatt wrote:the tones do work

Good.

jmatt wrote: I'm trying to record things like interviews from television programs.

You mean from a real TV? How are you doing that? With a microphone? Please go into detail.

The settings for this are fairly constrained. It's enough. The available range of the slider has been set according to the results from testing on a wide range of audio samples (I took part in the testing). The range was finally set with values greater (and smaller) than were required by any of the...

I'd recommend not using Windows Media Player for burning CDs.
Try CDBurnerXP instead (free) http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home
For making a CD that will play on ordinary CD players, ensure that you select "audio CD" as the type of disk that you want to create.

Converting to MP3 format is inexact, so it is common that if some peaks in the audio are very close to 0 dB, then after encoding to MP3 format some of the peaks may be clipped. To avoid this clipping from occurring it is best to Amplify the audio to just below 0 dB before exporting. -1 dB should lea...