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No, you should find out why your computer is too slow to deal with recording and playing at the same time. How much hard drive space do you have and when was the last time you defragmented?

Koz

Two track mono and stereo can be really different. For example, you always get a reliable signal if you use the mono copy/paste method. The two signals will always add up, etc. etc. If you record in stereo, you are at the mercy of the stereo services delivering the show to the computer. If they're w...

<<<What good would a mixing board do?>>> It's not a mixing board. It's a USB-based analog to digital converter that creates a digital bitstream independent of whatever crazy things your computer is doing. You never specifically answered the question of where your external sound equipment is plugged ...

<<<recording of a teleseminar.>>>

Need to know a lot more about that. Is this special software that allows you to participate in the seminar, or it a simple web page that you sit with a cup of tea and watch? Describe the steps you need to perform to see the seminar.

Koz

Where did you get the music from?

Koz

Many people get powerful, stereo, line-level signals into their Windows laptop with an External USB sound card.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz

The bit rate of an exported MP3 file is set during the Export step, not in preferences like it used to be in Audacity 1.2.

Koz

There's room here for a joke about the tool "cleaning up" a Jimmy Hendricks fuzz guitar -- and taking all the fuzz out. The clip fix tools can do amazing things with a performance that overloads very briefly once every ten minutes or so. It can be the difference between having a clean show...

When you complete one "capture," like the first hour of a multi-hour session or the ten minute talk or musical performance, Export As WAV. When you get home (or sooner), copy all the WAV sound files to a safety drive or backup system against accidental machine damage. historyLecture1_20100...

<<<Or, you can click and higlight the section you want then file, then export selection as WAV or MP3.>>> And the only problem with that is the complete inability of Audacity to set accurate edit points. If you delete everything else you don't need (editing upside down), you can use the magnifier to...