Audacity Forum

Are you sure that it's a stereo source that you are recording? If not, just record in mono.

If you reboot without the USB mic plugged in, does your machine work properly? (with sound).

I found a few references to problems with Open SUSE which lead me to this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/Audacity

Hope that helps.

Open the "index.html" file in your web browser.

Audacity does not support ASIO, so stick with the drivers that you already have (or any updated versions of them if available). It sounds like there's a problem streaming data across the USB interface in both directions at the same time. If you also have an on-board audio device, you may be able to ...

I've not got SUSE installed, but Google brought up this: http://en.opensuse.org/Audacity
If that gives you v 1.3.x rather than 1.2.x, don't worry about it, a lot of Linux distros use 1.3 as it has been around quite a while and is pretty stable.

The text file with labels needs to be in this format: number (tab) number (tab) label name the first number is the start point for the label (in seconds the second number is the end point for the label the "label name" is.... you've guessed it, it's the name of the label Each item in the l...

If your card does support both... Every PCI SoundBlaster card that I've come across supports this. Usually monitoring of the input source is just a matter of making sure that it's not muted in the Creative Mixer (but this is not advisable if you are using a microphone and monitoring with speakers a...

I tried with only 4 tracks, which shouldn't take more than a few minutes but after 20 minutes of waiting I got a bit bored. I was thinking more in terms of 10 seconds of audio :) Just so as to rule out "operator error" as the cause, try following this tutorial, but just use a few second o...

There's a LADSPA plugin called SC4 (Studio Compressor 4?) which is a bit more complex than the standard Audacity compressor, but a lot better. Once you've got the hang of the built in one (which is easier to use) you might like to try the SC4.