Audacity Forum

... Most of this is explained if you could bear in mind the link you were given: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects Please look at Help > About Audacity and make sure you are using the latest 1.3.13 Beta. It sounds as if you are not doing so. 1.3.13 is here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows ...

up in the menu bar, where it says core, built in output, built in imput, the icon of the magnifying class, the big I, the two sided arrow, the volume control, and so on are all moved from the top and i cant move them back, what do i do to move them back

What's the noise? Hiss? Traffic Rumble? TV running?
As a fuzzy rule, if you can't make out the words now, we're not going to be able to do much to help. Try the equalization tool and see if that helps.
Koz

yes i record a cass tape and i have noise all thur the recording can i get some help thanks

It can often help if you remove the very low bass and high treble by using the Equalization effect with settings similar to this:
After processing you may want to run the "Amplify" effect with the default settings.

... I have faffed about with a lot of settings and effects in Audacity, but I'm not sure whether I've improved it or made it worse. Two things that do help: turning bass up, treble down and volume up on my amplifier. I know next to nothing about audio, so a lot of the controls make zero sense to. How ...

... CD player. I'll get a USB sound card. I'll need it for my lap top anyway when I take off for Florida next month. I really appreciate your time and help. P.S. Sorry for the late response. I never saw your last two messages until I realized there was a page 2 for the message string. Duh.

... these possible reasons as to the recording "drift": http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Recordings#drift If it doesn't help please tell us what your recording and playback devices are. Gale

... because my old computer was an XP and I just transferred over the same version of Audacity. I'll have to download the Beta version. That might help with a few problems I was having with Audacity even before this virus attack. Before the virus attack, I was having some volume control issues ...

... greyed out. Same with anything else i try to do. But then sometimes randomly it will work, after trying to do it for five to ten minutes. Please help!