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LAME is not required for this task. LAME is only required for exporting in MP3 format, which is not what you need. The steps are: 1) Export the audio as one or more WAV files. 2) Load the WAV files into your CD burning program and burn a CD. For a more detailed description, see here: http://manual.a...

Something like this is happening to my main box which has Gnome Ubuntu 13.10, when i import any mp3 into Audacity. Playhead moves at about 5 times speed but i can tell the sound out the speakers is not simply what that would represent. Hitting the stop button crashes the app requiring a force quit....

steve wrote:As described here in the manual http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... jects.html,

The answer is that page. Please read it.

I was using "Amplify" to achieve this but here's where I'm bit confused. As you can see in the pics, there are two projects. One shows the Amplification (dB) number 0.8 and in the other, 6.4. Based on this; 1) Where are these numbers coming from and what exactly do they represent? When th...

Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts for switching tools? F5 Time Shift tool, F1 Selection tool.
If you find those keys inconvenient but use them a lot you could customise the shortcuts for more convenient keys. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ke ... ences.html

An MP3 data CD can hold several hours of audio, but as explained, it will not play on your CD player unless your CD player supports playing MP3 data CDs.

kozikowski wrote:We sometimes tell people 78 minutes.

Yes, 79.8 minutes is an absolute maximum for Red Book compliance. Burn failure rate tends to increase rapidly close to the limit so I generally prefer to not go much over about 72 minutes.

The maximum duration of a standard audio CD (Red book standard) is 79.8 minutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio Some CD players can play MP3 data disks (Yellow book standard), but many CD players can't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3_CD Most good CD burning software provide...

Reboot your computer, then try reinstalling Audacity 2.0.5 and select the option to "reset preferences".

This tutorial in the manual is probably what you need: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sp ... racks.html