Audacity Forum

My sound card must be getting on for six years old. (They don't make 'em like they used to). Most equipment (in the UK) is covered by a 12 month guarantee. It's possible that you may have "blown up" your sound card by overloading the input, (and that is probably what the retailer will clai...

I'm not sure either if I understand your questions, but Pele's answer sounds like it would do the job. 2) Is there a way to password protect my .aud files from the nosy ears with whom I share my computer? If you are on XP or later, then simply having a separate user account will block the casual &qu...

"Capacitors" are electronic components - they are used a lot in audio equipment (in the electronic circuits). Like old batteries, over time, they can start to "leak", and when they start doing that they are broken, and they sound just like that noise in your recording. If your se...

That is the sound of a capacitor breaking down - probably an electrolytic capacitor.
You've got a hardware fault.

I think that I can tell you both what it is supposed to do, and what it does do. In the link that I gave, it is described as "Step Demuxer (stepMuxer, 1212)" and in the link from jan "stepMuxer" A "muxer" is a device or in this case a plug-in for "multiplexing"...

It is a "conventional" headset isn't it (plugs into the sound card sockets - not USB)?

With little information to go on: Use headphones for monitoring and not loudspeakers, and keep the volume down to avoid the sound "spilling over" into your microphone. Also, in "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O" make sure that "software playthrough" is NOT selected. Don't...

No, I don't think it can either. Audacity can do all the audio editing stuff, but you need a video program for that part. For Windows Movie Maker - maybe you can find something from their Newsgroups? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx Also, have a look here: http://tv.i...

Starting with everything set as in your pictures: Mute all the Record inputs except for the mic input: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a59/Dark_Forge/untitled2-1.jpg Plug your microphone into the pink socket on the back of the computer (sometimes front sockets are not connected, so it's safer to u...

Windows Movie Maker should be able to import WAV files.
If it only supports importing WMA and not WAV, then use SUPER to convert from WAV to WMA (but I don't think it is very likely that you will need to do this).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... music.mspx