Audacity Forum

Yours for $49.95. Total Recorder will do this too, for only $49.95 (Pro Edition). It's extraordinarily difficult to do this without involving money-based software. The problem being it's a very restricted market, so there's no return on a low cost effort. Skype gets away with being "free" ...

you need a special program
try IMCapture for skype

[Moderator note: $49.95 US ]

This tutorial http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Tutorial_-_Your_First_Recording should help you get the connections set up. Beware that most laptops do not have line level input sockets, which you need to connect the line level output or headphone output from ...

... tape deck and connect it to the line in You say you have read tutorials - have you seeb this set of tutorials from the 1.3 manual, they should help you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_or_minidiscs_to_CD And you should probably upgrade to the latest ...

I just downloaded the new iZotope Nectar plug-in and placed it in the Plug-in file as i do with all other VST plug-ins but it does not show up in the effects menu. And I did rescan. Help please. The plug-in is time sensitive (10 days) and I would like to try it ASAP.
Thanks

... "unsplitted". I use windows xp and audacity 1.2.6. This was perhaps not a very accurate description of the problem, but hope someone can help.

... very frustrating, as it should not be that complicated. I have tried the tutorials, tips, manual, etc. with no success. Thanks in advance for your help.

Am I recording at too high a volume? Possibly. Can you post a screenshot (there's a tool in the Audacity Help menu that will allow you to make a screenshot of a track) or post a short (less than 1 MB) sample as a WAV file. I tried selecting line in,"what U hear", ...

... to this. Are you using the 64 bit version of Win 7? If you are able to reliably make this problem happen by a particular series of steps, that may help the developers track down the issue and fix it. If you are using any version of Audacity earlier than 1.3.12, try upgrading to 1.3.12 as there ...

Actually, I feel like an idiot right now. I solved the problem by taking the phonograph to my desktop and plugged it into the audio line in. It worked fine, but the adapter (from one size (5.25?) to 3.5) is stereo to mono so I'll need a new adapter. Thanks for all the help!