Audacity Forum

... Now, I'm not even sure this is an Audacity problem, and more of a general hardware problem. However I don't know where else to look for help here, and I'm hoping if you guys don't have suggestions you can point me in a better direction. When I use my built-in mic, the playback is fine, ...

... Please click here to join: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_for_blind_users#docs . Meantime you can read David Bailes's JAWS Guide for help: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.0.5-Guide.html . If you are deleting audio at the end of the track, press HOME to play ...

... which appears to be a Universal Binary (so runs on PPC or Intel Macs). Please state your exact version of OS X and Intel or PPC if you need more help. Gale

... by the minidisc headphone out. I use a Tascam US-144 for inputs to my laptop. A patch cord with 3.5mm stereo jack to RCA L&R jack will help here, but you'll need a pair of RCA-to-1/4" to convert to the inputs. After that, a USB 2.0 cable will get you the rest of the way. There's ...

... be my skepticism. If you have any other ideas about what might be causing this I'd love to hear them in case the problem returns. Thanks for your help so far.

The Microphone connection on the laptop is only to connect microphones. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/computerAnalogMicrophone.jpg Chances are good your computer has no stereo Line-In. Many laptops don't. I have been able to use a Behringer UCA202 to adapt stereo connections to my laptop. http:...

Hi! I am trying to save to my computer a concert, which has been recorded on minidisc. It's the first time I am using Audacity. The first attempts aren't good at all. The quality of the sound is horrible, very distorted. I have a Windows 8.1 64 laptop. I have a cable with 3.5 jack, which I introduce...

... and I'll answer the questions you last left me before Audacity started working. If I do not report back here, I sincerely thank you for trying to help me out Gale Andrews, happy new year.

I don't know of any ready made solution, but a couple of things come to mind that may help to develop your own solution: SoX is a command line program that can be used in real time (though more usually used for processing files) http://sox.sourceforge.net/ It includes ...

... meters. I share Steve's opinion. Run Benchmark. Screenshot Tools (the name says why). +1 +1 +1 "Nyquist Reference" should be in "Help". +1, though there is currently no mechanism to do that. It would require that either there is an additional "Help" type plug-in. ...