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Click anywhere in the 3 seconds of existing silence then use Generate > Silence to add in the extra 3 seconds. You do not need to "open up a gap". Audacity will insert the silence into the selected track where-ever the cursor line is currently positioned.

You have your two songs on two stereo tracks, right? You export them and they get, as you said, "mashed". Before exporting, select the Timeshift tool from the Toolbar (the one with the double-ended arrow). Drag one track to the right so that it only partially overlaps the other by four seconds. Now ...

Are you displaying "Waveform" or "Waveform dB"? Have you tried resizing your track vertically? Have you tried zooming in - to stretch the waveform out more?

And if very low (inaudible) frequencies are present at high amplitude - then your "quality hi-fi speakers" can get seriously damaged as they attempt to reproduce that stuff. You may want to consider filtering out the ultra-LF with the High Pass Filter - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/High_...

The transport – the play and record button should be the same button. When you stop, the record button should show “Play” when you hit the “Pause” button the record button would show “Record” or “Rec continue.” The transport buttons in Audacity mimic those found on analogue tape decks. They are a s...

What is it about that clip that you do not like? You have a good signal level. There's no clipping (over-recording). Although my westerners ears are not attuned to eastern influenced music, I found it pleasant to listen to. The only problem I found was that, when run through Frequency Analysis, ther...

Patience is a virtue. Let's wait for the man!

If the machine has both motherboard audio and a separate audio card, is it possible that the Windows update has switched the "default" audio from one to the other - and this other is muted or disabled? I'm clutching at straws here. I've never come across anything like this before?

Does "File...Recent Files..." take you to your .aup file?

Hi Koz, Yes, I'm on Windows (7 Home Premium 64-bit). I followed those instructions precisely and no, it wasn't silent. The music played fine (via Windows Media Player). I then went a couple of steps further. I opened an Audacity project, soloed one track, took the speaker slider back up to full and ...