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You don't say what playback device you are using, but if it's an external card it may have its own buffer setting. I'm using on-board audio, a Realtek ALC892 chip -- the same audio codec found in devices used in world renown mastering studios, having been used for some of the most impressive record...

Your laptop probably has an internal microphone. Yes it does. Are you sure you have enabled the external microphone in Windows Sound? Yes "Sound" shows it is enabled. ...and you have selected that external microphone in Audacity? That is interesting... I'm not familiar with that particula...

Can I download audio only to my computer from You Tube music video's? You may not have meant "download" (as distinct from recording) but yes you can download the video or the audio from the video as a file, by entering the web address of the YouTube video on certain online web sites that ...

"Stereo Mix" will record everything that is playing through the sound card, including previous tracks that are playing in Audacity. You need to select the input that corresponds to your microphone. Yes Steve[...]The microphone is selected. Your laptop probably has an internal microphone. ...

We'll get you set up but after that it will be better to update to the latest 2.0.5 from http://audacityteam.org/download/mac . Please give us the make and model number of the cassette player. Assuming it's a USB player, make sure the meters in the system sound preferences bounce up and down to abou...

When I brought up the Metadata Editor directly, I decided what you must have meant was for me to fill in the fields I wanted to have preset values Yes. then click "Set Default" and then close the editor window No, just click OK to close the window. Although using "Set Default" w...

I lowered the "Audio to buffer" down to 5ms, and changed the output to dmix in the drop-down menu on the Mixer Toolbar. If both of these options are not set, e.g., lowering the latency but not routing through dmix or vice versa, the latency is too high to do any serious audio editing. Doe...

how do I monitor the playback of the AUP files and the files awaiting export. When I try to monitor either I get over paly from both tracks If you are not already doing so, it is usually easiest to follow the method recommended in http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/basic_recording_editing_and_exp...

Hi, Tengri. You speak good English. I am just saying that if you have a serious problem you will probably get a faster answer in the main Audacity Help forum. Of course you can post here in French, and repost in the main part of the Forum if you get no answer here. I wasn't sure if it was really com...

Now you can SHIFT-click on the Track Control Panels to select the restored region in all the tracks except the bottom one. You will see the Sync-Lock icon is not showing in the bottom track, so that track will not be affected by the deletion. Sorry, I should be completely clear that the only essent...