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I am having a hell of a challenge understanding how to record onto my PC (actually it all is very challenging lol) 2/ ~ are there some 'simple' to follow instructions/guides for puter dummies to get started with audacity? There is an article in the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_...

@Gale: thanks for the useful updates to my notes for the draft proposal - Peter.

In 1.3 when you export, the export dialog box has an Options button, click on that.

WC

As Gale pointed out in an edit to the changes I just added to the tutorial in the manual, you can also get those little clamps that go onto the spindle of the TT and clamp over the LP to help flatten it as it is playing.

WC

Reading between the lines I think you are suggesting people are dissuaded from using Timer Record when it might be more appropriate because it's less functional. Perhaps time for a new campaign "Proposal Timer Record Improvements" (for after 2.0)? Ok IC - I'll try to find some time to kno...

Moving this thread to Audio Processing section for retention - abd transferring the main gist of the request to the Wiki/Pending Feature Requests page (with a link back to this thread).

WC

iTunes will reference the music files externally unless you tell it to make its own copy. To do this in Itunes go to Edit > Preferences and go to the Advanced tab - the click on Copy Files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to library IIRC the default is for this to be off - a dumb default IMHO I wo...

Have you grounded/earthed the TT properly. Most TTs should hace a little thin black wire (with a little spade connector on the end)?

WC

Thanks for reporting back - and glad you got it sorted

WC

And precisely what format are you exporting to (file type and bitrate) ?

WC