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Audacity does not natively support AVCHD but you may (I've not tested) be able to import the files if you install FFMpeg (see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown) If that does not work, use your video editor to export as a WAV file. MP3 encoding will ...

Are you looking for a solution or an explanation? I don't know what the explanation is - the recording from VLC is wrong. Two solutions come to mind: 1) Record from Windows Media Player rather than VLC. 2) VLC has a feature that allows you to write the output directly to a file rather than to the so...

Shall I go with Mackie Onyx Blackjack then? or you would recommend another one? Forum policy is that this forum does not recommend or endorse products other than Audacity. Any suggestions that are given regarding equipment or other software are personal opinions of the person posting and do not rep...

Maybe I'm missing something so please let me know what you are doing. When starting a recording it should be: "Record,... 3...2...1...go..." rather than "3...2...1...Record..." The very start of a recording can be a bit iffy for many reasons. Allowing a few seconds at each end o...

Gale Andrews wrote:Steve made a small typo when he wrote out the steps. He meant CTRL + I. I've updated his steps.

Oops. Yes I meant Ctrl+I. Thanks Gale.

The feature request page is updated regularly, though there may be additional requests pending. For many of the requests there are multiple possible ways to implement the feature, so you may find it useful to discus your ideas here on the forum to get some feedback before spending too much time on a...

I would strongly suspect the problem lies with the sound card drivers.
See here for how you may be able to fix it: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updat ... ce_Drivers

CDs don't support metadata.
Windows Media Player often appears to show metadata on CDs when it is really displaying data from its database.
There is an extension to the standard audio CD format called "CD-Text" which is supported by some CD writers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text

So did you try raising the noise floor setting to see what happens?

the current one has the minor flaw that it adds noise to the beginning/end of my tracks, and I just snip it out, no big deal I don't have Chris's compressor installed at the moment, but are you sure this is not a user error? Chris's dynamic compressor is intended to even out the "dynamics"...