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... cases, where the source IS calling for those sounds. With better earphones, one can hear the correct sounds. Now, why in Audacity, and why not in Vista recorder, or other? THAT could well be because Audacity has a BETTER fidelity of recording THOSE more demanding sounds than the Vista recorder, ...

Must be a Vista thing, I see in the preferences where the left/right arrow keys should fast forward .....
but they don't work....

... That's not unusual. That feature only works if it is supported by the sound card driver, and some sound card drivers do not support it (especially Vista) - This does not prevent Audacity working, it just means that you have to select the recording input using the Windows Mixer rather than selecting ...

... I was running XP and transfering my old LPs and Cassettes to my hard drive. Recently, my computer failed and I had to replace it. I had to get Vista and reinstall to resume recording. Here is my issue. In recording, my input (VU) meters are pegged out at max, regardless of the position of the ...

What hellosailor says is very true. Two USB soundcards that get recommended a lot on this forum are the Behringer UCA202 and the Edirol UA-1EX. The Behringer is cheaper, the Edirol has more features - you can check the specs of both on t'interwb and both companies are happy to deal with pre and pos...

... newer Dell Laptops and other brands that have Vista already installed on them are going with the ... if you don't have the capability to record "what you hear" problem solved which has really screwed legit musicians. ...

... Audacity 1.2.x projects will work in Audacity 1.3.5 Audacity 1.3.x projects will NOT work in Audacity 1.2.x Information specific to Vista is available in the Audacity wiki (link at top of page). Just go to the wiki and type "Vista" into the search box.

I don't use Vista - but from what I remember reading other postings under Vista control isover the sound is passed from Audacity to the Sound services under Vista and your soundcard & driver s/w - so that's probably why it doesn't show the mixer toolbar.

WC

Try this page from the Audacity Wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer The Vista article may also help you: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Vista_OS If you still can't make it work then it's likely that it will be ...

I'm sure this has been covered, but save me the looking and sorting through stuff trip... I'm running Vista, and Audacity works fine for other things. I'm trying to record what I'm listening to while streaming. I looked in the Realtek setup and apparently the driver isn't ...