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You are going to struggle using Audacity as a "live production" tool because it's not designed for that. Audacity's strengths lie in manipulating sounds after they have been recorded (post-production). There is a description in the manual for how Audacity would normally be used for making ...

The .AU files are the data files that belong to an Audacity project. You should not touch them - let Audacity handle them. Audacity works in its own "project" format. There are two parts to an Audacity project - an .AUP file and the associated data. When you "Save" a recording, a...

No, not with Audacity.

can I ask why you make no mention of sample rate conversion from the DVD where the audio is presumably @ 48khz? On a "home made" DVD the sample rate may be 48 kHz, but could be almost anything. For a new user there is already a lot of new stuff to get to grips with in the steps that I pos...

You're in luck - there's a tutorial in the manual about splitting long recordings: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sp ... racks.html

(the advice for posting topic said more information was better than less..lol) Yes indeed. The more information in the question the shorter and quicker the answer. In this case the answer is: "Z". To flesh out that answer a bit: Zoom in and drag select so that you are close to zero crossi...

If you launch Audacity from the start menu, then Audacity will not be opening a project and the only orphan files that may be detected by Audacity are those (if any) that may be in Audacity's temp folder. If you launch Audacity by double clicking on an Audacity project (AUP) file, then yes Audacity ...

The tape deck output would probably be the best one to use.

The file name does not match the project name. According to the becoming.aup file, the project name is: "becoming 7.16" which means that Audacity will be looking for a folder called "becoming 7.16_data" for the data files. For Windows a dot can have special meanings, so should no...

FFMpeg adds support for file types that are not natively supported by Audacity. It has no bearing on this problem, but since you ask: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown