Audacity Forum

why cant it just record whats going through the soundcard. Because your sound system is configured to record from the microphone. To record sounds that are playing on your computer you must configure Vista to record from "Stereo Mix". Unfortunately not all sound cards are able to do this ...

Have a look in "Edit Menu > Preferences > Audio I/O" and see what is selected as the recording/playback devices. It should either show that the Realtek sound card is selected, or the Microsoft Sound Mapper. If it is the Sound Mapper, then you should also check in the Windows Control Panel,...

No problem, I thought that might be the case.

Go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab" and check that "Software Playthrough" is not selected.

Adobe Audition has a nice feature in their Noise reduction effect - after grabbing the noise profile the window stays open and you can click on a button to "Select all of track". This allows both stages of Noise Reduction to be performed without having to close/reopen the effect. Audacity ...

But even if it's not (my BGWs can do 106dB) you can't listen to the Beastie Boys and then just press Stop and hear the noise Very good point if listening to a CD player, but not necessarily such a good test when listening to audio playing on a computer. Some sound-cards will shut off all output whe...

You can instantly check the length of the track (when "length" is selected) by double clicking on the track. To deselect, single click on the track. You can move the cursor position by text entry into the "Selection Start" box. (this will usually be the start point of your desire...

What exactly is an "XCUBE 611" ?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22XCUBE+611%22

Nobody knows modern Macs support three button mice with scroll wheel. I wouldn't dream of running a Mac without one. Most of the machines are Microsoft Wireless, too, including the laptops. I can edit wheelies around people still trying to use one button. That's just so 1980s. :D One of my edited s...

This is the Soar.au file opened in Notepad: <?xml version="1.0"?> <audacityproject projname="soar_data" version="1.1.0" audacityversion="1.2.6" sel0="0.0000000000" sel1="0.0000000000" vpos="0" h="0.0000000000" zoom=&quo...

Different drivers then. Audacity is a slave to the drivers.