Audacity Forum

Look in the "Sounds" section in the Windows Control Panel. There's a section that lists all active recording devices - if the USB interface is listed there then Audacity will recognise it as an audio interface. If it's not listed there, then as far as your computer is concerned it is not a...

Plug in the USB and allow time for Windows to recognise it BEFORE you open Audacity.
When you open Audacity, go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices and set the "Record" device to the USB option.

SoundBlaster cards usually provide a control panel near the Time/Date on the Desktop. In there you can set the recording input. It needs to be set to "Line" or "Mic" (depending on which input you are using) and NOT set to "What U Hear". (Creative Labs usually refer to &...

you are recording a mono input (such as a microphone) you can set Audacity to record in mono (one single track rather than the double track) by going to: "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" and setting "Channels" to "1 (mono)". For recording a stereo track (for example ...

No need to apologise gbarksdale, we've never seen anything like this and would like to know what on earth (assuming no alien intervention) is causing it

As a real world user, the tiles need to be diagonal so that the edge of the highlighted area can be clearly seen regardless of its exact position (assuming that tiled images are to be used). I was not particularly keen on the chain link effect from an aesthetic point of view (too prison-camp like), ...

The problem is not with getting music to the computer from a record on the turntable - that works fine. The problem is getting Audacity to recognize the music coming from my receiver which is plugged into the turntable. If, as you say, Audacity is recording the turntable via USB, then your Audacity...

waxcylinder wrote:And I thought that they were planning to turn Sync-Lock on for 2.0

Yes that was my understanding - Sync-lock would be enabled, but not selected as the default.

Bottom line is that MP3s do not support track marks. MP3s are continuous audio files - you can play, fast forward or rewind and some players may allow you to skip so many seconds forward or back, but there is no facility in the MP3 format for marking the positions of different "songs" with...

My dynamic mic wont work on audacity either..so frustrating..went to preferences, everything..i have a line mixer and u controller..i just wana record..dammit..it just dont pic up..tried everything..what's the use.. If you're wanting help in getting this working you'll need to be more specific, for...