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I have a Sony walkman minidisc recorder and player. Suddenly 2 things have happened. 1. When I press thr record thingy the red light does not stayon but it does reord just the same. 2.There is a huge amount of noise and distortion. I am recording from a record player via a line in connection. I had no problems with this until now. What can I do about it?

I renamed the file, I tried with a totally different file but no joy. I alsouninstalled and reinstalled the programme but all to no avail !! Thanks anyway for trying.

Thank you for the impeccable instructions. Why don't people who produce manuals employ people like you to write them. I usually find that I only understand the manua when I know what I am doing! One wee problem however, the first time I tried it worked brilliantly but the file was still too big so I had another go, indeed several goes but now keep getting an error message saying cannot write/create file.. What did I do wrong sorry to be such a nuisance I was really thrilled when it all cam right the first time.

Thanks green machine. As I said earlier I am not too computer savvy. I have downloaded and installed the mp3 direct cut but don't know what to do next. I have the mp3file saved on my pc..could you bear to go thro' it with me?

Many thanks. I have now succeeded, thanks to your help. May I ask you one more thing. I exported my file as an mp3 file in order to email it to a friend but the file is too big. I wouold like to split it in two. Is that possible other than by playing it in audacity and stopping half way and then selecting each half separately? I can't see how to fast forward to a certain point Is it possible?

Thank you so much A440 for your very clear instructions which I followed to the letter. I found that all the right boxes were ticked and the volume was on high. I have been struggling with this for days.. However I decided in desperation to pull the jack out from the back of the computer and reinsert it and hey presto it worked. It is still incomprehensible to me as the connection was sufficient for the disc to play on the computer but not to record adequately.Do you understand it? What happened this time is that the volume was very high indeed and the blue wave thingy occupied most of the space, top to bottom. I still don't see how to move the mixer tool bar or indeed what the mixer tool bar is and now just to complicate matters further I can't actually open audacity. When I click on the icon it just goes to the tool bar at the bottom of the screen and doesn't open... but I'm hoping a friend will help me with this later today. All this high tech stuff is not "old lady friendly" Thank goodness for kind people like you ! The reason for my working via the minidisc is that the music centre is a distance from the pc and it is not convenient to move either. Furthermore I am having to record my old 78s at a friends house as my 78 player gave up the ghost a while ago, I have to do this with a microphone as these old "gramophones" have inbuilt speakers and no outlets to plug into !

I'm new to this and don't know if I'm posting this in the right place. My problem is I am trying to transfer some old records to a CD via the Sony walkman minidisc recorder/player. I have succeded in recording to the minidisc and connected the player via the lineoutjack to the pc( windows XP home edtion)I can now play the record on the computer. I have audacity on my pc and then recorded in audacity , however I did notice that the waves were very slight. I then saved the file both as an audacity and a wav. file but when I try to play it back I can barely hear it, in fact it was only by turning the speaker vol to max and putting my ear to the speakers that Iheard anything at all.I put this problem to another forum and they suggested that the volume of the line out may have been too lowI don't know how to go about changing that. The weird thing is that I did suceed in recording something satisfactorily for the first time last week, my first attempt at this. So is it the audacity or the minidisc which needs adjusting and if so how?I would be very grateful for any help I can get.