Audacity Forum

After tying to use mp3mymp3 and fiddling around with that i downloaded Audacity.
1st thing i do is click record and i get ther error message :
error while chcking sound device please check input device settings and project saple rate.

so i google it a couple of times and try all these remedys , even some from theese forums, but still to no avail.
when i go to preferences it is like this...:
playback -
2 options - microsoft sound mapper - output
- speakers (realtek high defini
Recording
device -
- NO OPTIONS !? <( thats with either microsoft sound mapper or realtek speakers used)

im using windows vista on a dell inspiron 530s i think ? like i said im not that computer literate.
ive used a driver detective (poorly) and it said there was nothing wrong wh the realtek ditriver and am really up shit creek.
bit of a novice when it comes to this sort of thing and would greatly apprecieate any help.
matt

Vista is rather a pain in this (and other) respects..

First thing to do is to download Audacity 1.3 beta (it works better than 1.2 on Vista).
It is not essential to uninstall Audacity1.2, but you may as well.

Read this before installing Audacity 1.3
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

Pay particular attention to these two sections:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ility_Mode
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ng_devices

Wow i didnt think it would be that simple, theres me downlaoding sound cards and stuff an all i needed was a beta version.
thanks so much, sorry for being a nuisance.
matt