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Check out the suggestions in this post http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6282
(also all the things that radovitch had checked in both his first and last post.)

I'm sure you're just trying to be helpful stellarstuff, but the legality of what is being proposed in that video is at best highly dubious. Downloading and using Audacity for free is perfectly legal (as described in the Audacity license agreement), but I'm pretty sure that circumventing the software...

Is that an external USB sound card?

What are you trying to record?
What have you tried so far?
What works and what doesn't?

Yes, this is a known problem. It has now been fixed in the latest development version, so you may well want to upgrade to 1.3.6 when it is released (keep an eye on the main Audacity web site download page).

The "ART Tube MP USB Microphone Preamp" may be a suitable compromise. It's about half the price of the M-AUDIO Fast Track Pro, and ART have a good reputation for good value pre-amps. (it also has "phantom power" available which means that you could upgrade your microphone to a st...

That's how it works on a Mac. On a PC laptop, the connection is most normally for a mono Microphone, not stereo high level. That's the second illustration on that page. On PC desktop (any full size PC) usually have both a "microphone input" and a "line input". Since you are goin...

and do not know what they mean by unzipping it. Does that mean to "extract the files"? Yes it does. Here's some instruction taken from the Audacity wiki (which I've edited to show the relevant bits for Audacity 1.2.6) http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lame_Installation#Simple_I...

kozikowski wrote:That cable thing may not work as well as you would think because the Mac turns off the playback during recordings.

Doesn't the "software playthrough" option get round that one koz?

The easiest way on a Mac is probably to get a "2 x phono to stereo mini-jack" lead so that you can connect the audio output of a normal DVD player to the audio input on your Mac, then record in the same way that you would record from a cassette player. http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.ph...

I just updated to 1.2.6 hoping that it might resolve the concern, but I am encountering the same issue. All of the 1.2.x versions are quite dated now - 1.3.x is virtually at the point of becoming 1.4 (stable), so it's worth doing the upgrade. There are a few minor differences to the user interface,...