Audacity Forum

Hi,

I have a friend who just installed Audacity, but instead of having "Stereo Mix, Mono Mix, Line-in, Microphone, etc" in the drop-down menu, she has "Line Volume" and "Mic Volume" instead. She owns a Toshiba laptop with XP system. The version isn't the cause, so we're not sure why. Please advice. Thanks.

What you get in the input options is entirely dependent on the particular soundcard that you have in your PC and its associated driver software - and can thus vary greatly from PC to PC.

WC

So say if she wants the option of "Stereo Mix," does that mean she needs to change the soundcard?

Basically yes - but rather than swap an on-board soundcard I woul recommend using an external USB or Firewire soundcard.

I use an Edirol UA-1EX and stevethefiddle uses the Behringer UCA202 - both seem to work well with Audacity. The Edirol is moere expensive but has more features/functionality.

As a first step though it may be worth searching t'interweb to see if there is updated driver software available for the soundcard - this my help, but is not guaranteed to do so.

WC