Hi - a few months back I purchased a Crosley CR6015B USB turntable. After some messing around, I was able to get it working with Audacity 2.02 on my 5 year old Dell XPS computer using Vista. That computer went south and I have now purchased a Dell Inspiron 15z laptop with Windows 8. I loaded up Audacity and updated to 2.03. The problem is that, although the laptop seems to recognize the turntable when I plug it in (I hear a tone when I insert the USB plug), neither the Win8 Device manager nor the Audacity device bar list it as a USB Audio Codec. Instead it shows up as a “Microphone Array USB Audio Controller” (I am pretty sure this is the turntable as it disappears from the list when I unplug the USB. The turntable works fine, the internal turntable speaker plays music and I can plug in my external computer speakers and hear music. I just cannot get the turntable to play through the computer/Audacity (so, sadly, I cannot convert my vinyl).
I am not much of a techie and may be missing something basic. I did try to connect back to the old laptop and seemed to have a similar problem though it was really hard to tell since the video is what is shot and the screen kept going black on me.
I appreciate any thoughts about next steps.
Thanks
Laura