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Check that your version of Audacity actually is 2.1.3 by looking in "Help > About Audacity".
Note that the crossfade effects are listed "below the line" near the bottom of the Effect menu.

fwrunner2017 wrote:Unfortunately, Foobar is Fubar on my Android moto e 1st gen.

http://www.foobar2000.org/download

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You're not giving much information, which makes it difficult to help you. What are you trying to record? Have you tried amplifying the recording? If so, what happened? What do you have selected in the device toolbar ? Do you see the meters jumping up and down in the Windows Sound Control Panel when ...

Are you recording a mono track or a stereo track?

TedV wrote:Records a flat line.

Check that it really is recording silence and not just "very quiet". To do that, try to apply the Amplify effect. If it really is "flat line" (absolute silence), the Amplify effect will say that the "New Peak Amplitude" is "-infinity".

BASNOOB wrote:Is there a "best" way to do this?

No there's no "best" way. Do whatever sounds best to you.
For most users, the controls on their music player will probably be as good as any other method, and is by far the easiest.

No problem hearing the right and left audio test with head phones plugged directly into the M Audio hardware but it's still not recording in Audacity 2.1.3 So what's it doing when you try to record? Does it record a flat line? Does it record a waveform but the waveform does not plat back? Does it g...

BASNOOB wrote:I'm talking about using Audacity to bass boost songs, not the controls in the car.

Why not use the controls in the car? That would seem to be the obvious thing to do.

Connect the USB device to the computer before you launch Audacity.
Check in the Windows Sound Control Panel that the device is enabled and active.
Launch Audacity and select the USB device in the device toolbar.

colebantam wrote: I have demonstrated in a video, that 3 clicks are enough to (potentially) infect people.

Your video demonstrated that Audacity can be made to load a DLL from the Desktop. Do you not see that that is not the same thing?