Audacity Forum

... "Report Post" in the message - the icon is a downward pointing triangle with an exclamation mark in it. Once again, many thanks for your help with this - much appreciated, WC

... internally, but I would prefer to use Audacity so that I can then edit it etc with ease. Thanks so much for your time – your advice is a great help. :D

... In this version (beta 1.3.13) this menu unfolds only when you click "save as"first. This I did not know. Thanks a lot for your help! Best regards, Sasja.

... occasion when I am typing in the file name I want the file saved as, the recording will start playing all on its own. Thanks in advance for your help. why is audacity save button greyed out.jpg

steve, Pls reply to my question which i have asked last.

... up after itself and I don't know the conditions that cause it to destroy all its temporary capture clips. Causing an intentional crash didn't help. Did you crash it because it wouldn't stop the regular way? Back in the dim dark history, Audacity had trouble closing with both the Red X and ...

... verry slowly so I was just trying to speed up the process with the new software on this new CPU. I look forward to any extremely highly detailed help on this forum or emailed to [e-mail address removed]. Thanks in advance for your reply.

... stick with the two channels. Just selecting mono input in Audacity will not sum your L&R channels together. WC Thanks very much for all your help. Yes, it is a stereo-cartridge. Since my first reply and before I saw this reply I tried using the mono option - I get a slightly different wave ...

To Export your recording from Audacity as an MP3, you will also need to install "Lame".
I highly recommend that you install the 1.3.13 version of Audacity (get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/)
To install Lame, see here: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

... expected that "Recording" in "Sound" will only show "microphone". Windows disables all the other inputs. So as the help says you have to right-click over "Microphone" and choose "Show Disabled Devices". That should list more devices. It may or ...