Audacity Forum

bmckeen the basic problem is that USB devices tend to take over the whole sound - both input and output - and obviously your USB TT doesn't have speakers for playback. Galeandrews post relates to this - you need to tell Audacity to direct it's output to your PC's soundcard. Go to Edit>Preferences>Au...

I infer from you user name that you're probably using an ION TT - if so try connecting the deck to a hi-fi or compact audio with the RCA plugs that are attached to the ION - and test to see if you get 1 or 2 channels.

WC

Or set Audacity so that actually takes a copy and does'nt just use the pointer: Edit>Preference>File Formats in the "When importing uncompressed files into Audacity" check the "Make a copy of the file before editing (safer)" radio button. And on the "When saving ....." ...

My Edirol UA-1EX USB sound card works like a dream too - and excellent techsupport/advice availiable from the Edirol/Roland helpline when I was setting it up. My ION that preceded it also worked fine with no USB transfer problems - just a lot of wow&flutter. Environment: Dell Dimension 2400 Wind...

hello, another newbie here, impressed with the software and the results. I have managed to convert a few vinyls to wav and play on itunes - which I wanted - but so far (and despite following instructions and checking out faqs) have been unable to listen to the vinyl as it records. You appear to hav...

kozikowski wrote:This is the Windows forum. No iTunes. .......
Koz

Any Windows user that has an iPod will have iTunes (it comes on the CD in the box) - and even if you don't have an iPod any Windows user can still download iTunes for free, and why not - it's a good music player and jukebox.

WC

No, it's only available in the Beta 1.3.x - but I find 1.3 a fairly stable release though.

WC

OOTB Audacity is set to mono - to change this go to Edit/Preferences and click on the Audio I/O - set the "Channels" to "2 (Stereo)".

You may need to stop Audacity and restart it to get the change to take effect.

WC

1.) when you have finished recording an LP or EP, then do any editing you want - then break it up into tacks (move you cursor to the track break and press CTRL+B and then type the track label. Once you have labelled all the tracks - and don't forget a track label right at the beginning for the first...

Phyllis, Either close the Audacity project and start a new one (best way) - or if you do insist in doing it all in one audacity project, when you have finished with the track and exported it as WAV.Mp3 whatever - then just delete the track by clicking in the little x at the top left hand corner of t...