Audacity Forum

Lame (like Audacity) is free software... I don't know from whom you have purchased it, but you can get it for free... Not all builds of lame will work with audacity, you should get the lame version on audacity's download page that Koz mentioned. I hope you didn't pay for audacity either... I'm afrai...

I always get worried when someone says the words "RCA / USB cable" in the same sentence... USB is digital, tape deck RCA outputs are analog. You need to convert analog to digital first... that's where the UCA202 comes into play! Just for curiosity... where did you get such cable? Did you m...

When you say this is a"windows problem" it almost seems as if you are suggesting Audacity is not intended for this use in windows? (Multi track recording?) But only for ripping from CDs (!) or recording the internet such as youtube?? It's quite the opposite actually! It's when I try to do...

The audio editing equivalent to "AGC" is called a compressor like Steve said. Take his advice and try it out.

Forgot to say that the preamps built in the usb mics are usually of a lower quality than a dedicated external mic preamp.

USB mics already have a preamp built inside, and you have to stick to it, unless you know something about electronics and feel like opening the mic and hacking it ;) Preamps are meant to be used with more "professional" kind of mics... these usually come with a XLR connector (which usually...

What do you mean by "AGC effect"?

Is it AGC as in Automatic Gain Control? What are you exactly trying to achieve?

Have a try with VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ or Winamp

They're both free and support ogg vorbis out-of-the-box.

I've been playing around with this some more and I was able to reproduce it and understand what you mean... Doesn't happen in 1.3.12. Thank you for reporting. Steps to reproduce: 1) select a portion of a track 2) on the selection toolbar select "hh:mm:ss + miliseconds" for the end/selectio...

Audacity 1.3.9 is old. Upgrade to the latest 1.3.13.

You can get it from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/