Audacity Forum

Please forgive me if I'm being stupid / haven't found the relevant help topic but I'm trying to convert cassette tape music to computer so I'm following the "Steps" at this link: http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Cassett ... o-Computer . However, when i press "Record" in step 7, I get this message: "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate."

How do I rectify this error message? I have no idea where the input device settings are nor where the project sample rate is!

Further apologies if I'm in the wrong forum: I don't know whether my Audacity is stable or unstable. I downloaded Audacity 1.2.6 for Vista from this link: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows and, as far as I know, it downloaded fully and correctly.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice you guys can offer me.

Cheers,
Charlie

Hi Charlie
You are on the right forum, if this is your first recording attempt I suggest you check out the following, http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audac ... orial.html
Stearman65

charlie wrote:I have no idea where the input device settings are nor where the project sample rate is!

In the "Edit" menu, select "Preferences" then look in the "Audio I/O" tab for the playback/recording devices and look in the "Quality" tab for the default sample rate.

If you are using Vista you need to first ensure that you have a recording device available - see here:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ng_devices