Audacity Forum

Everybody always leaves out Step One. What's the show? What is the purpose of your recording? You can Effect > Amplify > OK and that will increase the size of the waves and make them a little easier to see. You can drag-select a chunk around one of them and Control-E magnify that portion. Would that...

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Koz

The Neat and Orderly people always get burned with this. Audacity does not Save sound files. It saves Projects which, as you're finding out, are collections of files which together make up your show. As a general rule, you can't move anything once you create a Project. Locations and names of folders...

It's possible.

Koz

Do you have lots of good, clear, defragmented hard drive space -- although I don't actually think that's it? Did you recently get Skype or other conferencing or "telephone" service? Did you recently get a USB sound "thing." Can be anything: microphone, speakers, headphones, heads...

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<<<portable cassette player via USB straight into the laptop.>>> Pieces missing there. You found a portable cassette player that has a USB connection? You need to identify the USB service in Windows Control Panels and select it for recording. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index....

You very quickly dig yourself a hole when you try to mix the songs from your 120 song collection with your songs on the Music CD collection. The CD songs are all numbered 01, 02, 03 and the massive collection is all numbered 001, 002, 003. The collection taken as a whole now has three digits and eve...

iTunes lets you create playlists which allow song ordering by simple dragging. You can listen to a playlist in iTunes or your iPod instead of a raw collection of songs. If you don't do that, the system will always play from 'Aardvaark Lullaby' forward or whichever iTunes column you have selected -- ...

<<<The question remains why the OP even wants or cares that two identical channels are recorded instead of one.>>> I'm with him. It flies in the face of logic that a mono show should be completely compatible with a stereo production or mixdown. I'll bet I can find places where it doesn't work so wel...