Audacity Forum

proteus459: It may take a while for you to get your head around how Audacity works. Those MP3's and OGG's will be imported into an Audacity project. You don't need LAME to do that. When you are finished editing you will Export the edited version in WAV format for burning to CD. The original MP3's a...

Sorry for being unclear in my explanation... The files I am working with are downloads from an archive website I belong to called Archive.org . It's a huge archive maintained in San Francisco that contains dozens of media types all made available to the public royalty-free. The music comes from a va...

Thank you! I have bookmarked those 3 resources for weekend reading. One added question: In the user's manual regarding "Exporting MP3 Files" is a statement that something called a LAME must be downloaded and installed before an edited file can be exported as an MP3. Is it necessary to employ the LAM...

Thank you... I've bookmarked these 3 for reading this weekend. Now, another question... While reading the User Manual I came across this statement in a section titled "Exporting an MP3 File": In order to export files from Audacity in MP3 format you will need to download and install the optional LAME...

I have downloaded Audacity for the first time and spent about a half hour trying to figure out how to eliminate the commercials and PCAs from a 102 minute archived radio program soundtrack to shorten it enough that I can create a CD of the music the radio program played that night. I noticed an icon...

Thanks, that sounds relatively uncomplicated.

Now all that remains is to figure out how to place the labels!

My first visit and my first question... My IT technician suggested Audacity to do some editing I need to do. I have downloaded several public access MP3 files from an archive web site. They are recordings of radio programs. Mixed in among the DJ's banter, the commercials and the public service annou...