Installation

[twindragons]

I already know that I'm an idiot, but why is installing the driver for my "simple" USB turntable so complicated? The turntable is an Anders-Nichloson Model TR-W155 USB turntable, complete with disc, cable, etc. I am college educated and even manged to finish medical school, and reasonably computer savvy but cannot make heads/tails of the instructions manual because what the manual says is supposed to appear on the monitor does not. When I went on the Audacity web site for help I saw very little except incredibly complicated indecipherable code and abbreviations. I just want to turn my old LPs into files in my Itunes. Can't we just all get along? BTW, I'm running Vista Home Basic on a Dell Vostro 220s. Thanks.

[steve]

but why is installing the driver for my "simple" USB turntable so complicated?

Because Microsoft have taken something that was really simple in XP and made it into something that gives Vista/Win 7 users headaches. I have every sympathy.

This method usually works:
1) Plug in the USB interface and reboot the computer.
2) click "Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound" (if you're using "Classic View" there's a direct link to "Sound" in the Control Panel), then click on the "Recording" tab.
3) Check that the USB device is enabled as a Recording device as indicated here (scroll down to the picture below the blue text box) http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel

Good luck.