Play audio without recording

[Metamoocil]

Hey everyone,

I just recently got one of those USB Turntables to play my old records, and it came packaged with Audacity. Great program, I love all the things you can do with it. I've been trying to look for a way where I can just play the music through audacity without recording it. I have no desire to transfer my music to my computer, I would just like to play the music as it goes through, without the hassle of having to record it every time. I ask here because Audacity is the program that came with it, and the only thing I know. If Audacity can't do this, does anyone know of a program that does? For clarification, I just want to play my turntable though my computer. Just have the audio go through my speakers without doing anything else, as I have no other way of listening to it.

Thanks!

[kozikowski]

You can go into Audacity Preferences and select either Hardware Playthrough or Software Playthrough. Either one should work to do what you want. Restart Audacity.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

AND you will need to click once in the area of the record level meter to turn monitoring on if you want to listen without recording.

WC