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If you can't get LAME to work as an Audacity plugin - then you might want to try finding a standalone MP3 converter (a bit of Googling should find you a free one on t'interweb. Even iTunes can do this for you, but it's a bit fiddly). Then just export WAVs from Audacity and run them through the stand...

That's because your soundcard and it's associated drivers don't allow you to record whatever is playing on your computer. I bet you can't record ftom Youtube either. It's because manufactures seem to be making this difficult - presumably to make piracy harder. You can get around this by using an ext...

absolutely - should work fine like that.

WC

Use File > Export this will bring up a dialog box, in the Save as type use the drop-down to select WAV

WC

The earthin wire is normally a thin black wire - if supplied it should be permanently connected inside your TT - the free end normally hsa a flat spade connector (U-shaped). There should be a metal screw-threaded post on your pre-amp with normally a knurled nut on top. Attach the spade connector to ...

Moving this to the 1.3 section of the forum.

WC

Normally a phono preamp will have two pair of RCA sockets - one for input and t'other for output. Both are colour coded red and white to identify the stereo, normally white for left and red for right. To connect the TT - you should have a lead coming out with three wires - two thicker ones with RCA ...

What this device will have onboard as well as the amp and the other equalization/effects gubbins is its own ADC (Analog to digital converter - aka soundcard). So what it will deliver down the USB cord is not an amplified analog signal, but rather a stream of digibits (the pre-converted signal) - so ...

It is 1.2.6 you are installing - and not the latest Beta version 1.3.8?

We did see some similar problems with the early 1.3.8 releases on Windows XP - see: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 24&t=11706

WC

Are you by any chance using non-standard characters in your track/song names - inparticular avoid characters like / and : - it's often easiest and safest to stick to purely alphanemeric plus underscore - this will give filenames that should be portable across all operating platforms.

WC