Audacity Forum

What you get in the Mixer dropdown is entirely dependent on your soundcard and its associated driver software. And note that many PC manufacturers appear to be removing the ability to record what is playing on the computer (presumably to deter piracy). You can work around this by buying an external ...

and i wanna know if i could pay for like a super hooked up audacity like with no bugs or problems ROFL :D :D :D Sorry to laugh - but even with almost unlimited budgets there is no such thing as entirely bug-free software. Even the mighty NASA nearly managed to lose three astronauts in space once du...

I don't use Normalize - as in Audacity that acts on each stereo channel independently and can thus destroy/damage the stereo image. (could be useful though if you have a setup where the L&R signals are not equal). And on that basis I personally do not agree with the advice to Normalize given in ...

USB devices have a habit of hijacking the entire sound – output as well as input – and they don’t tend to have loudspeakers (hence “no sound”). What you need to do is to direct the Windows sound output to your PC's soundcard Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices>Audio>Sound Playback - and make this...

Frank, I can open all 3 of your attachments ok. A couple of points. 1) I see no blue waveform when you say you have pressed the Record Button You should see something like this in the attachment Recording.GIF 2) Your signal level into Audacity is way too high and you will be getting clipping. WC

Hi Guys, I'm running Audacity 1.3.10-beta (unicode) on a Windows XP Pro SP3 and fully patched PC David, I can't comment on the Pause button on MAC as I am a Windows XP user - the Pause works ok there Despite what you said WaxCylinder, I sorry to say that I can also confirm that neither the pause bu...

As Bill says ... and for a bit more insight into the Audacity project file structure: When you save an Audacity project as <project_name> it creates a number of things 1. a top level master project file called <project_name>.aup 2. a folder at the same filing level called <project_name>_data 3. and ...

The input devices that you get are entirely dependent on the soundcard that you have and the associated drivers - it varies bt computer and by soundcard. Increasingly manufacturers seem to be removing the functionality to record what is playing on the computer (e.g. live streaming from the Internet)...

Ok - so the first thing to do is to ensure that you have the latest device drivers installed for that Soundcard. If you Google CONEXANT HIGH DEFINITION SMARTAUDIO 221 this should give you several sites where the latest drivers can be downloaded.

WC

The spec for you PC should tell you. Or you should be able to use the Windows Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices to find out.

WC