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http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_a_simple_voice_and_music_Podcast_with_Audacity In Audacity preferences you need to enable "play other tracks while recording new one". To do that, Click on "Edit" and select "Preferences" then look in the "Audio...

I use a Behringer UCA202 - it does not have many features other than Line in and line out, but the sound quality is good and it is very inexpensive. I use it for transfering cassette tapes from a hi-fi cassette deck and I would say that it is ideal for this type of thing. It also works well for reco...

almapercus wrote:the file wasn't working properly...

The file wasn't working properly in what?
Exactly what Export options did you select?

See here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7864

Recording from Skype is problematic because of the way that Skype manipulates the computer sound system. There is special software available for Skype recording (Search this forum for other posts about Skype). You may be able to record just your side of the conversation by changing the recording sou...

There are no new tools in Audacity for doing this. The tools listed in the earlier post are still the most common ones used. Some of the demo examples of those tools are quite impressive, but the few reports we have had from users suggest that good results are difficult to achieve. If you try these ...

I don't know of any existing convolution plug-ins for Audacity, though it should be possible to make one using Nyquist. There are nyquist functions "snd-convolve" and "convolve" available in the Audacity implementation of Nyquist. (snd-convolve sound response) Convolves sound by ...

You can change Audacity on the fly with the sampling rate window in the extreme lower left. Just change the Project Rate in that window before you Export and the exported audio file will use that as the sample rate. Dropping from 48kHz to 44.1kHz will not be very noticeable in terms of sound qualit...

If you have any tracks that do not start at exactly "time = 0.0000" (if they start before or after 0.0 seconds on the time line), then you will need to select that track (click just below the track name) and use "Mix and Render" (from the "Tracks" menu). The selected tr...

Your USB sound card will have a "native" sample rate, which sounds like it is probably 48kHz (48000 Hz), and from what you say, recording at 48000 Hz is no problem, so you should set your Audacity Preferences to use 48000 Hz as the default (Edit>Preferences>Quality). Some sound cards just ...