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crunchy distortion.

OK. Now we know what you don't like. I have to go back and listen again.

Koz

I don't hear anything so bad that I would not enjoy the speech. Are you talking about that slight honking sound like the performer is talking into a barrel a little bit? I think that's feedback from sound system...maybe? The sample is not bad enough to make a decision. There's also a little crunchy ...

That's what I found. There are very nice ways to publish and distribute printed matter -- Adobe PDF for one, but audio presentations seemed to get left out. I think we had a forum question about that earlier and we came up with an audio publishing standard that nobody uses. I guess the desire is a s...

Don't confuse MP3 bitrates with WAV sample frequencies. You should set Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit Stereo. That's the Music CD sound standard. MP3 is never perfect, but MP3 sample rate of 320KHz gets close. You set that at the MP3 export step in Audacity. That's the only place to set it. F...

If it is a USB device, restart Audacity.
Then:
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording > Device. Make sure that says your Cassette Player. "USB Audio Device," maybe? It may not say the name of the maker.

Koz

Someone will correct me, but I get around 100MB for 200 minutes in mono, so I don't think you're likely to run out. Do you have good headphones? Good recordists listen to the show in progress. Nothing like getting to the end of the two day show and produce tons of hum and distortion because of a bro...

One more. There is a limit to the size of a WAV file. You can't record for weeks and then save a WAV. I don't remember what the upper limit is. It's 2 or 4 GB which is substantial but not forever. Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/bu ... _a_cd.html

Koz

Music on a CD is basically WAV format, so that's a good choice. You need an Audio CD Authoring Program like iTunes or Windows Media. In iTunes, you make a playlist of the songs in the order you want and burn the playlist to disk. The Burn Dialog lets you pick Audio CD. Windows Media, I suspect does ...

I've actually done this. VLC player has the ability to scan and you can stack performances so they play one after the other. Koz