Recording problem Everytime I try to record anything I get "Recording failed. Audio format does not match."

Try a different mic to see if problem follows. If yes then it is a setting. If not then the mic is bad and needs to be sent to mfg or get a new one.

you should check out your sd card whether it has virus or not or you may try to format you card.I think it may help you.... if not let me know i'll give you other solutions.

You can't. Cassettes are analog and the USB only recognizes MP3. The USB will only record off a normal CD or a CD with MP3s on it. It won't record other formats. The unit only allows to record from CD to cassette or from CD to USB. There are some cassette decks that will convert to MP3. Just do a search for "cassette to MP3 converter"

Music or video ?????

If video you can install vlc player from here free:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

When installed click on show in the menu bar
and select advanced control now the player can record.
When click on the record button.
And it will create your video in your video map.

For music also for free you can install this recorder from here:

http://www.sound-recorder.biz/freesoundrecorder.html

Free Sound Recorder does exactly as it sounds -- it is an easy-to-use FREE software program that lets you record any sounds from your sound card and save the recording directly into MP3, WMA or WAV files.

Free Sound Recorder is a perfect audio recorder to record your own voice, music or any other sound by working directly with your sound card. It supports the record input/source from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, external input devices (e.g. CDs, LP, music cassettes, phone line etc.) as well as other applications like Winamp, Media Player, etc. With built-in advanced audio record engine, the recorder produces high quality recordings.

If you're looking for an application to help you for audio recording, you won't be disappointed in Free Sound Recorder! Main Features of Free Sound Recorder

Allows you to record audio into MP3, WMA or WAV format directly.
Allows you to pre-define audio recording qualities to help quickly set and manage recording parameters.
Built-in advanced audio record engine to produce high quality recording.
Allows you to preset/preview your audio recording device before starting record.
Build-in WMA WAV MP3 decoder.
Hope this was helpfull

I don't know this particular machine but here are some general comments.
Most CD recorders need you to press (and sometimes hold) the record button followed by the play button before tehy actually record anything (if you don't press the play button you will still hear sound via headphones etc. but no recording file will be created)
Does it record from vinyl records okay or is it just cassettes?
Are you using the correct sort of CD?
We use a Denon CD recorder and it only works with AUDIO CDs - computer data CDs or CDRWs will not work in it. Even if the Crossley will accept computer CDs it may require a particular format either +ve or -ve (labelled CDR+ or CDR-) to be compatible. Once you have tried finalising a disk and it has failed you cannot use the same disk again.

It sounds like you have NOT connected via the recording software.
It is like the normal Windows software audio has hijacked the audio system even though it is external.

Go into your recording software and look for an option to select the Lexicon device. You did not tell us what recording software you are using.

This is not an uncommon problem with these external audio recording devices.

You can use FREE Hi-Q Recorder is a free software for recording sound in multiple formats. of course, the sound recording you will need a microphone connected to your computer. You must also remember to choose the format in which the sound will be played back the recording (audio cd or mp3) in mp3 format for older players may not play (audio cd will play in 100% of equipment)

audio recording is not available to all lumix. on dmc lz7, audio recording exists. if you don't get any sound when playing movie on your computer, try use a different video player or try install new audio/video codecs, espacially for mov/mp4 format

Take Windows 7 OS as an example, here I'll show you how to record music from YouTube with sound Recorder program.

1. Open Sound Recorder by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Sound Recorder, and then, in the list of results, click Sound Recorder.
2. Play the music or radio you want to capture, and click start recording.
3. To stop recording audio, click Stop Recording.

Note: Make sure you have audio input devices like Microphone.
This method is absolutely free but you have to play with speaker and use microphone, and it's very difficult to control the quality of the audio you capture.

Here are some more tools as well as methods to help you record audio from YouTube.
http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/recording-music-from-youtube.html

Two things to try: make sure you have a big enough memory card for the intended format and recording time. I suspect you are trying to use the 16MB Compact Flash card that came in the box. A 1GB card will record much longer than the battery life in the Microtrack 24/96, even when recording 24-bit stereo in WAV format. If you have a smaller card, and want long recording times, use an MP3 format. Using the MP3 encoder, monophonic recording, 128K bits/sec, 44.1K samples/sec, you should be able to record over 16hrs of audio on a 1GB memory card. Same card, WAV encoder, 44.1K samples/sec, stereo, 24-bit audio will produce only a little over one hour of recording time. With the 64MB card that came with the recorder, the most you can record using WAV encoding, 24-bit audio, 44.1K samples/sec, is a little less than 4 minutes. With 16-bit audio about 6 min, and with mono and 16-bit audio about 12 min. With WAV, 24-bit audio, mono recording yields 7:52.