Audacity Forum

I don't know about the e-mail program that you are using, but with Thunderbird,

Take a screenshot by pressing the "Print Screen" key
Create a new e-mail message and press Ctrl+V to paste the screenshot.

I can't think of anything much simpler than that.

It sounds like you will need to use a limiter If you've got the LADSPA plugins installed, look for "Hard Limiter" With the whole track selected (You may actually be better trying this on a short section first, then using "Undo" and arepeating it on the whole track once you have f...

Audacity does not support AC3, you need to convert it to a supported format such as wav first.

In Audacity, go to "Edit->Preferences->Audio I/O" and set Playback to Microsoft Sound Mapper.

Try setting it for:
Recording - USB
Playback - Speakers

Check that you have the correct source selected in the Windows Mixer recording section,
AND
Check that you have your soundcard selected in "Edit->Preferences->Audio I/O"

-into laptop LINE IN but i cannot get any signal to record,so it has to be set as "MICROPHONE" source There's the problem - It's very rare that a laptop will have an actual "Line in", they usually only have a mic in (and usually quite poor quality too). A line level signal is in...

Is the whole file loading into Audacity (does it show up as a visual wave)?
Is this with one particular mp3, or any mp3?

Are you able to record with other software, such as Windows "Sound Recorder"?

Sound Recorder only lets you record short clips, but it will prove if your hardware is working.

Normally you would select "line in" in the Windows Mixer as the recording source for your guitar, but that will record the unprocessed sound - what you want is to record the sound that is being sent to your speakers. Try selecting "What You Hear" or "stereo mix" (depend...