Audacity Forum

Ok gotcha. Thanks so much for your help.

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... the PC I can only think of Skype and itunes which might explicitly do things with sound files. Happy to un-install these if you think it might help.

... lines but there is nothing from the speakers even on Audacity. The last bit plays but its crucial that the first part somehow works. Please help!

Thanks for the follow-up JP. I've moved the topic to the 1.3 part of the forum. I think that Variable Bit Rate #2 (170K to 210K) should give the same results as "Preset: Standard", and the result with stereo music should be very reasonable (a lot better than many MP3s available on the Inte...

Thanks for the help Koz

I think it may be that I have deleted something in the background. I was moving the files from one computer to another, I reckon this may be the issue.

Really appreciate your helps and I'm just working on re-doing it again!

Another lesson learned!!

Thanks v much

... Western Digital 640GB devoted to archiving AUP and WAV files), I have enough space (for the moment). Aside to Steve (the monitor): Thanks for your help, and move this post to whatever you decide is the appropriate forum. Thanks, JP

All of the signals in your equipment chain are somewhere around "Line" level. The Microphone input on your computer will be for "Microphone Level" signals (about 1000 x smaller than Line level), so attempting to "DI" (plug Directly In) your guitar equipment will massive...

... properly (both are animated and the levels approach 0 db). I've also made sure that the volume slider is up nearly as high as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated since without playback, Audacity is not really useable.

If the problem is due to a bug it would be a big help to the Audacity developers, and to the Audacity support team that have been trying to help you, if you could work with us and help to pin down the cause of the problem. The first step would be ...