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Assuming that you are using Microsoft Windows - you probably have "Stereo Mix" set as the recording source. Open the Windows Mixer (some sound cards use their own control panel instead of the Windows Mixer) and select the recording input that you want to use (probably "Mic" or &q...

I have managed to export a wav file .aup.bak I'm not quite sure what you mean. " filename .aup.bak" files are automatic backup files created by Audacity. They are basically copies of the " filename .aup" file. and have created a CD but this will only play on my PC It's most like...

"Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab" - uncheck "software playthrough".

chuyreal wrote:i have fast track ultra too and i just cant use it with audacty, is it compatible at all?

Apparently so.
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... tra#p30338

I have no experience of this device itself - but I am assuming that it is basically the electronic "guts" of the ION USB turntables. Let's hope that it proves to be more reliable than the turntables. OK, I know that many users have no problems at all with ION turntables, but there have be...

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Thank you for posting the outcome. The Audacity developers try to make Audacity compatible with as much hardware as possible, but obviously they can not test it with all available hardware. In the end it comes down to user feedback to know whether specific audio devices work with Audacity. If you ha...

Do you have a USB audio device plugged in (for example a USB turntable)? If so, then Windows has set the default audio device to be the USB device. You have then 2 options: 1) Unplug the USB device (may require reboot) 2) Go into the Windows control panel and in the Sounds and Audio devices section,...

Audacity saves projects in a special format - these projects are made of 2 parts: 1) The Audacity Project file (filename.aup) 2) A data folder (filename_data) BOTH parts are required for the project to work. NEITHER of the parts are normal audio files. They can not be played in other media players a...

This may or may not be relevant to you "person". There is a portaudio bug that affects Audacity - the effect of the bug is that audio devices are given the wrong id, so they are not accessible to Audacity. Audacity 1.3.7 in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) is patched to fix this but other versions of ...