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If I had to wildly guess what happened, the numbering scheme went up to the maximum and started over again at zero. So the beginning of the show got numbered twice, the first time crashed and the second time stuck and that's the work you have. That could be bogus, but it sure sounds like what happen...

I don't think you have a sound file any more. Files are saved on the hard drive in little snippets called clusters. WAV can only count up to just so many clusters before it loses count. That's the file size limit. The file header information may think you have a six hour long file, but the actual so...

It's a surprise to a lot of people that Music CDs don't carry song titles. The first time you play a CD on a computer not connected to the internet (so the player can go look up the titles), the song titles turn into track01.cda, track02.cda, etc.

Koz

A common misconception is that you can fix everything in post production -- after the fact. You can, but sometimes it take weeks where as little pre-prep takes an hour or so. Editing goes very rapidly if all the WAV files in your show are the same volume before you dump them on the timeline. You can...

Did you go into the Control Panels?

Start > Control Panel > Sound and Audio Devices > Hardware.

That's what it looks like on my XP machine.

Koz

Note how artfully we side-stepped trying to get AutoTune to work with Audacity?

Our job here is done [dusting off hands].

Koz

Gotta have a role model/hero. Entire religions have been based on that. I want the Brooklyn Homies to start copying the London East Enders with the idea that they are new and fresh and "foreign," only to find they're a carbon copy of the Bronx neighborhood a mile and a half away. The trick...

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=20

Koz

It's a special command, Shift-R Append Record.

Koz

Wait. Didn't we solve that problem in a later Audacity? Which version are you using?

Koz