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Nope, as I mentioned I did install the latest and greatest at your recommendation earlier. And downloaded the manual, which I see wasn't needed!

Steve, you must know how tenacious I get when I'm trying to learn something ! Downloaded the manual and will check out the tutorials for recording voice over music, and do my usual "mess around until you either get it or mess it up" thing! Thanks so much again for your help.

The same effect, but amplify by a negative amount to make the waveform smaller (lower amplitude). Well, duh! Makes perfect sense! Thank you so much. Although I'm a geek when it comes to things I use, I'm never going to be a "pro" at this (don't need to) but I'm having fun learning just enough to ho...

Just got an email saying there was a new reply, but not seeing one here. But figured it was a good time to update AND say thanx. Instlled the beta version and checked that I had the latest LAME (I did). The amplify effect was interesting; once I figured it out, it did seem to make the voice track si...

Thanks so much! I will try that tomorrow---I was struck with your suggestion about amplifying the voice track and negatively amplifying the subsequent music tracks; I understand you meant to do this to the consecutive files, but it also suggested to me another possibility: the first file is voice, y...

I've not got an iPod, but apparently they have a feature called "Soundcheck" Great minds think alike ;), Steve, but my mp3 player (not actually an iPod, used that generically, it's a Sansa Fuze 4G) doesn't seem to have that. I know when I make a CD in WiMP, there's a way to do that, but even when I...

Audacity newbie here (1.26 on XP Pro): A while back, I created a playlist on my IPod of .mp3s for sleeping to. The first is a spoken "induction" followed by 6 kind of sleepy music files. The spoken file as I downloaded it is VERY soft compared to the six music files; if I turn up the volume on my iP...