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Have installed as per the instructions,can hear the vinyl tracks playing through the line-in on the soundcard and through the pc speakers, the recording wave box is moving and the recording level meters are jumping with sound from the pc speakers but nothing records.

When I stop the recorder and play the file all I get is a few clicks.The signals are clearly coming from the hifi unit via the headphone socket.

Could some kind person please assist as I have spent a day trying to resolve this to no avail.about to bin the lot of it.

Thanks

regards

abouttobinit

<<<the recording wave box is moving and the recording level meters are jumping>>>

"...the fish are jumping and the cotton is high." Porgy and Bess.

These are the instruments in Audacity itself, right? The red record meters and later, the blue waveforms?

OK. So you press the red record button, capture some performance, and then press stop. You Export As WAV and that WAV file will not play?

Koz

thanks for your reply,no I am just playing the unsaved file,do you mean I have to export it as a .wav before i can play it?And does this mean I can only listen to the track after it has been put on cd?Or can I save it to disc then play it?

Have never used any software of this sort before so apologise for my lack of understanding.

your help is appreciated.thanks

abouttobinit

additional......have exported the file and saved it as .wav double clicking it starts windows mediaplayer
but no sound is played just a lot of hiss and crackle.

abouttobinit wrote:the recording wave box is moving and the recording level meters are jumping with sound from the pc speakers

How much are they jumping? They should be jumping almost to the end of the scale on loud bits.

they are as it happens,thanks for your reply however it hasn't addressed the problem of not being able to record the sound.

any suggestions appreciated,

perhaps it will teach me not to be such a meanie and buy some decent software instead,appears from the littany of problems posted here that even if I actually manage to record any sound it will probably have many of the other problems posted here.

regards

atbi

have sorted this out now appears my line-in socket is dodgy,worked ok on mic input but has recorded mono.thanks to those who contributed.

regards

abouttoNOTbinit

<<<appears from the littany of problems posted here that even if I actually manage to record any sound it will probably have many of the other problems posted here.>>>

You must remember that the forum represents distilled and concentrated Audacity problems from all the platforms and versions on Earth. It does not represent all the millions of happy Audacity users.

Microphone inputs are mono. That's how they're designed. Some computers simulate two channel by duplicating the mono sound on left and right.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnecto ... ctors.html

Koz

....although having thought more about it,if the line-in socket were dodgy then it wouldn't play via it clearly would it?odd.it's just recording that doesn't work but does work using mic.

could it be that the line in to the soundcard has a separate channel for play and record? I know b**** all about soundcards as you probably know by now....am I missing something here?

regards

abtbi.

abouttobinit wrote:,if the line-in socket were dodgy then it wouldn't play via it clearly would it?

You mean that your computer has a combined "line in" and "line out" socket? Are you sure? I've never come across that and cannot see how such a thing would work.
Some laptops have a combined microphone/line in socket, but the output (whether "line out", "headphone out" or "speaker out") is always a separate socket. Perhaps you were just plugged into the wrong socket.

abouttobinit wrote:the littany of problems posted here

Possibly 10,000,000 users world wide, and perhaps around 10 or 20 people posting per day... that's about 1 in a million that have problems. The forum, the manual, the on-line tutorials and the Audacity wiki are all here to offer help to them (MUCH better support than for the majority of commercial software - for example, try contacting Tascam for support, I did once and after a week of trying they told me to buy the new updated version at the full retail price of £299).