Audacity Forum

Look in the Audacity "Help menu > About Audacity" and ensure that you have Audacity 2.0. If you have an older version, get 2.0 from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Have a look at these introductory tutorials: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... _Recording

Extracting audio from VOB files requires importing using FFMpeg. To install FFmpeg see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#ffdown Batch processing is achieved using the Audacity "Chains" feature. Chains may be customised to suit your needs (though there a...

I presume that you mean that you have some sort of USB cassette player plugged into the computer USB port?
Set the Recording (Input) device in the Audacity Device Toolbar to the USB option.
Ensure that the USB device is connected before you open Audacity.

I am trying to record a tape plugged directly into a usb port. I have the same computer, everything is the same except that it won't record

... transfer all back to my hard disc drive? Drag and drop? Copy and Paste? Reinstall and just transfer the data? In which case how? Hope someone can help Gorgold

Yes you can get the old version back, but I doubt that will help with the problem. It is far more likely that the problem is that something has changed with your computer sound system or sound system settings. Are you still using the same computer with ...

... if this is just the difference between sound cards on the two computers, or if something has changed between the software versions. Thanks for any help!

... them where you want by using the Timeshift tool. The following links might be useful. Recording streaming audio - http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html Tool bar - http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tools_toolbar.html 1. ...

... to be able to play the sound bits on the fly so that I do not have to stop cut and paste in the sound bit and then continue recording. Does that help answer your question?

It is helpful feedback for the people that post help on the forum if they know whether their suggestion has worked. Also it can be useful for other users that search the forum looking for solutions to a problem that they may ...