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Thirdly if a CD has labels... CDs don't have labels. Audacity has labels, and you can use the labels to split the track into multiple files - one file for each CD track. That's what this tutorial is abut: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/splitting_a_recording_into_separate_tracks.html When you ...

If you're using a USB sound card, plug your headphones into the sound card headphone socket.
If you are using a USB mic that that has a headphone socket, plug your headphones into the headphone socket on the mic.

Andrew Wishart wrote:Is there a particular version of Audacity to suit Windows 7?

"Audacity 2.1.0 installer (23.1 MB, includes help files)"
Get it here: http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows

Record the two tracks, then use the "Pan" sliders to pan them left / right : http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... s.html#pan

You can make a "LOF"file using a plain text editor (such as Windows "NotePad").
When you open a valid LOF file, Audacity imports the files that are listed in the LOF file. The files are loaded into Audacity so that they appear as tracks, one below the other.

Klar wrote:The FEATURE that I am asking for is basically to be able to load a lot of songs into a playlist… But the songs being the multitrack files that audacity is already capable of loading.

Something like this?
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/lof_files.html

DavidN wrote: - Take the selected audio and run it through a speech-to-text library

Audacity does not do speech-to-text.
Furthermore, speech-to-text is technically very difficult and is not likely to be incorporated into Audacity in the foreseeable future.

1) See the reply to your similar question: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 79#p280179

2) See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/cr ... racks.html

Which noise gate are you using? Where did you download it from?

When dealing with signal levels, 0 dB is "full scale" (+1 to -1 on an Audacity track). All "normal / valid" sounds therefore have an amplitude less than 0 dB, that is, a negative value. "Absolute silence" is "minus infinity" dB. The idea of a noise gate is to ...