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stevethefiddle wrote: If you are using a laptop this may be a problem as most PC laptops only have a Mic input and no Line input.

Or you can use an external soundcard - see this thread for ones which are known to work with Audacity: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

WC

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

WC

Are you saying that if I had ticked Copy Music to Project (which I hadn't) then I would have been OK. Yes that is what he is saying. IMHO this is a poor default - and some of the forum elves are currently canvassing the developers to get it changed (including me). It is currently set that way (i.e....

TomC wrote: What is DAC?

Digital to Audio Converter (the part of your soundcard that does the digital to analogue conversion - for playback). The soundcard will also have an ADC, analogue to Digital Converter (which is used when recording digitally from an analogue source).

WC

Regular clicks like this can often be caused by your virus checking software. Some anti-virus s/w packages have an option to "trust" certain file types - if this is the case with yours tell it to trust/ignore *.aup and *.au files (these are the files that Audacity creates - the .au files a...

Have a read of this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... iscs_to_CD

If you have a USB TT - then also see this: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_turntables

WC

As you have iTunes you can get it to do the WAV to MP3 conversion. Better would be to use Apple's AAC compression format (it's what I use for my iTunes libraries and iPods). See this sticky thread I made: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=18759 AAC is generally reckoned to give ...

For video conversion I use a little gadget called the Pinnacle Video Transfer. This is a little device which connects to any video source via either Composite Video-in plus the two audio channels (using RCA plugs) - or via S-Video-in. It outputs to a USB disk or clip drive (I Use an 8gb clip drive) ...

Have a look at this article from the Audacity Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_turntables

WC

Turntables do normally need grounding to avoid mains hum. They ususally have two thicker RCA leads for the signals abd a thinner black lead terminating in a spade connector for the earthing. My Technics TT certainly has this and I have it grounded to the grounding post on my phono preamp for recordi...