Audacity Forum

'Tis as I thought. Strange that the hardware playthrough option is in the Mac prefs, since AFAIK hardware playthrough has not been available on Macs since OSX 10.0. Probably worth bringing up on the audacity-devel list, or at least the Audacity feedback address. I suspect that it is something left ...

I've not used one of those myself, so check it out to your own satisfaction before you buy.

Perhaps a windows user could tell us if the "hardware playthrough" option is even visible in the prefs dialog in windows? In Windows, there is no option for "hardware playthrough". Hardware playthrough is automatic if supported by the hardware - software playthrough is an availa...

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No, you will still need a decent sound card if you use that. You could use a USB pre-amp such as this: http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCG102.aspx Note that if you use this with Audacity, Audacity will only record the "clean" (unprocessed) sound and not the included guitar effects. Ho...

Audacity does not "Save" audio files, it saves "Audacity Projects". You can make an audio file by "Exporting" from Audacity. An Audacity Project is made of 2 parts - there is the Audacity Project File (filename.aup) and then there is the data that is used in the project...

kozikowski wrote:Most times you can turn that off.

It has been possible to turn them off on all machines that I've seen, though on one Toshiba laptop they could only be turned off from in the Windows Control Panel. I wish they wouldn't hide these settings, but sometimes they do

Yes, should work correctly in all current 1.3.x releases.

so the Windows XP that is on it has never had any updates since the machine was built. Would that have something to do with it? I guess that's possible. I don't know if anyone has ever tested this version of Lame on anything earlier than XP SP2 ("no-one" has XP pre-SP2 ... oh, except for ...

how I can get some of the other options to appear where it says/shows "Master Volume", You mean the "Mixer Toolbar"? http://manual.audacityteam.org/images/2/20/Toolbar_io.png See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Windows_Vista_OS#Mixer_Toolbar_has_no_recording_s...