Audacity Forum

Audacity cannot record directly from Skype. There are a number of commercial programs such as "Pamela" or "Total Recorder" that can record both sides of a Skype conversation - try searching Google - there's several commercial options and a few that offer demo or trial versions. A...

There's definitely something weird there, but it doesn't sound like the usual MP3 compression artefacts.
Could you upload the wav version to a website such as sendspace.com (it's free up to 300MB) and post a link to the file here.

You need to have both the AUP file and the data folder and they must both be in the same directory. See here for an explanation of how Audacity handles files and projects: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/File_Management_Tips It is much easier to send data as an audio file rather than as an Audacit...

I thought aighead said he already had a mixer and adaptors - though I don't know if it's suitable for microphones or requires a higher level signal. If he can get the computer recording from the mixer that he has, using a dynamic microphone (any old dynamic microphone), then there's a very good chan...

I keep wanting someone to post and argue with me. "Oh, they make that in a simple $49 USD package from Sweetwater Sound. Nobody yet. They make cheap dynamic (don't require phantom power) headset microphones: http://www.audiomate.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=A090AH Probably sound rubbish, but at t...

audio cassettes & LPs output are too harsh/loud very often for Audacity to cope with using the line-input option, hence the clipping, recording through the mic option makes the recording possible & the end result very good. That's strange - it should be the other way round - they may be lab...

wazza wrote:I have recorded a track from a cassette to my laptop,

How did you do that?

If you recorded in Audacity 1.2.6, did you use "File menu > Export As MP3"?

No rush with this, come back to it tomorrow or whenever you have time. I note there is a "Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 HD Audio Patch KB888111" available on the web site. Unfortunately there's no information about what this does, but it may be worth checking to see if it is installed. Th...

There is no easy way to do this, but you can do it manually. When you create or edit chains, it will create a "Chains" folder in Windows 2000/XP: Documents and Settings<user name>Application DataAudacity Windows Vista and 7: Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity You can copy that folder f...

A new sound card would certainly be an upgrade - the sound cards built into PC motherboards are rarely very good, but I'm intrigued to know why this doesn't work. If you have the time and energy to work this through we may find a solution that can help other users with the same problem. My sound car...