Audacity Forum

This has been pointed out to us before, and I added your "vote" for this to our Feature Requests page on our "Wiki": http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Feature_Requests#Improved_Resource_Control We can't say this is any priority for us at present as we are extremely sho...

If the Realtek device won't record stereo mix with any recorder you could try the Freecorder toolbar: http://freecorder.com/freecorder3/ It runs in your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) but will record audio playing in any application on your computer (e.g. Windows Media Player). It uses a softw...

Export as WAV from Audacity then convert to MMF in SuperPlayer:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload

What source are you recording from? Generally you can't change the bass level you are recording unless you can control this in the source itself. But check you project rate bottom left of the Audacity screen is 44100 Hz. If it is lower that will stop you capturing the higher frequencies.

Are you using the same sound device e.g. inbuilt sound to play back with outside Audacity as you are when you play in it? Some sound cards have effects for increasing dynamic range which you can turn off and on in their control panel. Or the device might have bad drivers in which case update them: h...

You could try updating the Realtek drivers as a first step:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ce_Drivers

If you set Realtek stereo Mix as the recording device in the Windows Control Panel then SoundMapper should record from stereo mix as it maps to the current device.

This problem will be fixed in 1.3.5 - valid .mpa files will be imported (whether or not you have LAME, which is only concerned with exporting).

Please see:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... n_silences

and the rest of that article.

what are you recording - voice with microphone, LPs with USB turntable or what. In what way are the recordings bad? Set the input level right
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ing_levels

and set the Project Rate bottom left of the Audacity screen to 44100 Hz.