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I am inserting the jack into the microphone socket in my stereo which is connected to a deck Has this ever worked? Microphone sockets are usually designed for microphones, which produce a very different signal to turntable. Sometimes the microphone socket is designed to work only with a microphone....

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When you record you should see a blue wiggly waveform appear in the track - ideally about half of the height of the track - do you see something like this?

Ah ha - it all comes clear now. I bet that you've only ever used Windows computers - Windows has a habit of making things "easy" for users. One thing that it does is to automatically add a file extension and hide it from the user. In itself that would probably not be too much of a problem,...

Are you using Audacity 1.3.12 on Windows XP?

Do you have a program that can make .ZIP archives? If not you can get Izarc free from here: http://www.izarc.org/ If you "archive" the .10 file as a zip file, then you should be able to upload it. Try this and see what happens: (ensure that Windows is set to show all file extensions http:/...

If you exported as a WAV file, the WAV format only supports files up to 4 GB maximum. Attempting to create a WAV file bigger than this will cause data corruption in the file because the format can't handle that much data correctly. On some older machines the limit is only 2 GB due to other limitatio...

Check that Windows is showing the file extensions: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=193

Then open the Metatag Editor from the File menu - enter some details and click on the Save button in the editor window.
Navigate to your desktop and use the default file name (tags.xml). Does that work?

What you are asking is called "vocal isolation" - it is "sort of" possible sometimes, but usually the sound quality suffers a lot . Audacity does not have this capability built in, but there are VST effects that claim to be able to do vocal isolation (such as "ExtraBoy"...

I have read every forum and tried unistalling and reinstalling audacity. Then you will know that un-installing and re-installing never makes any difference. I have also tried to creating a wav file and that does not work either. That would indicate that there is a more general computer problem that...