Audacity Forum

i want to play a song and record my voice at the same time but it wont allow me to do this. it is for my wedding, someone please help! i need to do this quickly and i have never done anything like this before, not to computer literate. any help will be appriciated!

Which version of Audacity are you using (look in "Help menu > About Audacity").
Which version of Windows are you using?

digiday wrote:I wouldn't beta-gainst it

That's terrible

digiday wrote:all I have to do now is figure out how to use it.

I'd recommend some links, but they're in my signature.

Some of the tutorials may be worth a look. Also, the Windows version of Audacity 1.3.12 includes the full user manual in the Help menu.

... very nice and I have a sound file in it now ready for editing... all I have to do now is figure out how to use it ... I'll try all of your online help and stuff before I come back to ask any questions. Thanks for your recommendations and information everyone. digi

... exactly what is being suggested here, a couple made my point that it's good not to clutter the front page with details of Tutorials and Quick Help. That said, I still think we probably haven't got "New users may want to look at" right yet (especially the actual contents of Quick ...

Thank you everyone for the help, I now have sound while the record is playing. Now I have a question, I am using a MAC with the Leopard operating system. What are the steps are necessary to burn from the record to a disk? As you can tell ...

Thank you everyone for the help, I now have sound while the record is playing. Now I have a question, I am using a MAC with the Leopard operating system. What are the steps are necessary to burn from the record to a disk? As you can tell I am not very good at this.

Thanks

Gale's left that there as a sticky as the advice is still current - it might help if he updated it with the latest version number to avoid confusion :) Version numbering by software developers (on most software, not just Audacity) tends to follow a few conventions: ...

Do you think that writing an algorithm based on three or more samples (like I mentioned a few posts above) could help to recover a clean acapella? No I don't think it would help. Or maybe we could write an script that take the best parts of each samples and reassemble them to constitute ...

See here for installing Lame for Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3