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Many laptops do not have a line-in only mic-in. A very few have a "magic" mic-in that can sense the signal level and adappt itself to line-level (which is around a 1,000 time greater signal). If yours is not one of those then you are probably a candidate for one of the external soundcards ...

So for my money it's pointing the finger at the laptop - I hope you kept the receipt ... My recording chain which is: Turntable=>ART phono-pre-amp/FM radio/TapeDeck=>SkyTronic passive switch=>Edirol UA-1EX=>computer records to either my desktop or laptop (both Dells, both XP) without hum and a very ...

Ok - so are all the leads plugged in properly with clean connectors and pushed (gently) securely home in their sockets?

And you're not using a USB hub, right?

Another thought: Have you tried a different USB input on your laptop?

WC

You know there is a setting in iTunes which will try to make all the "songs" on your iPod the same loudeness?

WC

You are using Effect > Amplify to bring the sound level up as the last step prior to exporting right? I amplify to -3 dB for WAV files for my iTunes, which I convert in iTunes to AAC for my iPod, which I find plenty loud enough - my son however complains that the recordings are sometimes too loud on...

Nor am I the right person to ask - I'm a Windows ellf ;) You do realize that questions of this nature are likely to bring out the zealots on both sides and even the hair-shirt Linux brigade may weigh in ... :) But seriously though, before I would even conside new hardware I would be trying to borrow...

Glad that helped (it's only easy when you know how )

WC

What are you recording from? Is it a USB device by any chance?

WC

This FAQ from the 1.3 manual may help you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... hancements

WC

use Effect > Truncate Silence

See this page in the 1.3 manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Truncate_Silence

WC