Audacity Forum

DigBick85 wrote:My cassette deck has two jacks, red and white. However they are marked as video/AUX in and are described as "input terminals"

Is this a portable cassette player?
They do exist, but it is hard to find portable cassette players that have line-out - most don't have it.

If your computer has "Line input" it is usually marked with concentric circles with an arrow pointing to the centre (a bit like an arrow in a target). (concentric circles with an arrow pointing out is the line output). These markings are usually very difficult to see without good light, so...

What sort of doorbell?
"Ding-Dong", "Brrrring", other?

For Audacity 1.3.9, go to Edit menu > Preferences > Interface Tick the box that says "Closing Last Window Quits Audacity" (this is on by default, so I guess that you must have switched it on by accident at some point. Re-installing Audacity will copy the Preferences from your previous inst...

You should be using Audacity 1.3.x (preferably 1.3.9 or later).
It is most likely a set-up problem - try different recording input/device options.
You have given no information about your operating system or your sound system (Ubuntu 9.04 with standard ALSA and PulseAudio installed)

What-U-Hear is insanely dangerous Perhaps a little overstated - testing to see if a light socket is live by putting your tongue into it is insanely dangerous. Using What-U-Hear for recording anything other than sounds playing on your computer (such as internet radio) is the least favoured option. I...

Yes, upgrading to 1.3.9 is a good idea - it's much better than the old 1.2.6 No, it probably won't help you to install Nyquist plug-ins as the procedure is the same. Yes, Audacity 1.3 supports "type 3" Nyquist plug-ins which are not supported by Audacity 1.2 (a lot of Nyquist plug-ins do n...

In the run up to Audacity 2.0, bug fixing is the only thing they are doing. I tend to keep a well test version "installed" (sudo make install), and regularly rebuild from cvs without installing. If you want to install more than one version on your computer, just add a suffix to the name wh...

USB microphone or conventional microphone plugged into the microphone input of your sound card?
Is it a laptop computer?
XP? Vista? Vista 64?

Read this topic (it can save a lot of headaches and heartache) http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ement_Tips

I regularly use Audacity, Audition and Protools in a work environment and I can assure you that it is possible to crash any of them.