What I’m stuck (at least in my thinking) is which ones of those changes should I reverse to be able to listen to my current downloaded audio on my computer, and which do I need to retain to be able to successfully record from the minidisk use the Behringer gadget when it arrives for doing the mini-disk recording. At that point I posted my Q above on this forum. I then tried recording again and it didn’t work. I went through all of the instructions (relevant to Windows 7). Thanks - in the manual the question of flat line when you record and no sound, redirects you to here on the wiki: The bat organisation has a whole ‘how to’ (which is how I found Audacity) but it’s an earlier version which has ‘line-in’ options to select and a different looking toolbar etc, frankly the computer picture looked comfortingly like Wordperfect! I was sure there must be another query like this but i couldn’t find it, so apologies for being so basic. The only thing that recorded was a wee nodule periodically - the 6-12 second thing that is covered in the wiki. if you don’t know what the level is going to look like when it appears on the computer) - so I had that slightly higher than mid-way. I assumed I would start playing the bat track on the mini-disk and then press record on Audacity - I wasn’t sure about selecting the levels in advance (i.e. The playback is only ‘speakers’ or soundmapper.

I’d selected stereo-mix as the first time I tried with microphone it didn’t work. I’ve now got a ‘stereo-mix’ option as well as ‘microphone’ and microsoft soundmapper, but no ‘line in’. I’ve used the wiki and amended all the things it said via the ‘Sound’ section via the control panel. I’ve put a line from the headphones output of the mini-disk into the only available entry to the computer (which has a headphones and microphone graphic). I’ve downloaded Audacity 2.1.1 using an exe installer (from your website).

The computer is a Samsung ultrabook from 2-3 years ago using windows 7. At present it is not recording (just a flat line). I have an old mini-disk player which I’ve dug out and used to record bats - I am trying to transfer that onto my laptop.

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