record on and needle sticks

[skyscraper]

I am using the cassette to cd kit on my Windows XP Audacity 1.2 and ... this requires audio splitters. I just recently purchased this program and have gone through three sets of splitters. The most recent problem may or may not be caused by the splitters:
Lately, when I begin to record to Audacity from a cassette, when I click the red "ON" button, the needle on the wave sound window just sticks at the beginning with a red line kind of jiggling like it wants to get started but can't. It happened a few days ago and I placed in new splitters (Belkon), things were o.k. but just now it happened again. I am not using it that much -- still experimenting. But ... I am hoping this might be caused by something simpler than having to buy an unending supply of splitters. Thanks for any input!:geek:

[waxcylinder]

For a start, upgrade to that latest Audacity 1.3.13 - you can get it from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

This set of tutorials from the 1.3 manual should help you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CD

WC

[skyscraper]

I really like Audacity 1.2.
1.3 isn't as convenient to navigate, and all reports are that it isn't complete and still needs a lot of work. 1.2 has a neat look to it and I feel comfortable with it.

I can't understand why you give it away instead of turning a profit on this problematic but interesting and fun software.

But back to the splitters: I removed the cassette to cd 1.2 Audacity and downloaded 1.2 from your site ... problem solved.

Also downloaded Brian Davies' ClickRepair. Thanks for the tip!

[waxcylinder]

1.3 is actually now a very mature Beta and the developers are getting pretty close to a release candidate (RC) for 2.0 - actually no new development work is taking place on 1.3 (nor will it) and all the effort is focussed on fixing a couple of tricky bugs that are currently stopping the 1/3s being a RC.

I've always found it easier to work with than 1.2 and from 1.3.9 onwards it has been my standard production system - 1.3.13 is probably the best Audacity yet. 1.3 has a lot more useful features tha 1.2: labelling and crash-recovery, in particular, are much improved in 1.3. The documention (manual) for 1.3 is far superior to the 1.2 stuff. 1.2 is no longer updated or properly supported - it is now very out of date.

Glad you got the kit working again.

WC

[steve]

I really like Audacity 1.2.
1.3 isn't as convenient to navigate,

That's just a matter of familiarity. After a week of using Audacity 1.3.13 you'll be wondering why some of the features in 1.2 were hidden away in such inconvenient places.

all reports are that it isn't complete and still needs a lot of work

Old reports.
Audacity 1.3.13 is complete in features (a lot more "complete" than 1.2.x which I find is frequently missing features that I need to use). The developers are smoothing off any remaining rough edges before releasing 1.3 as the new Audacity 2.0.

I can't understand why you give it away instead of turning a profit on this problematic but interesting and fun software.

Everyone is free to contribute if they so wish, either by being actively involved with the project, and/or by donating: http://audacityteam.org/community/

problem solved.

Excellent