Audacity Forum

The only way that I know of to enable Audacity to make a bit perfect recording of its own output is with Jack. Jack is terrific for serious audio work, but I agree that it can be difficult to set it up initially. How easy it is to set it up all depends on what your sound system is like before you st...

If the object of the exercise is to make the tracks have about the same loudness, then MP3Gain is the way to go, but I'm not sure that you are using it correctly. If the object of the exercise is to make all of the tracks "loud", then compression and/or limiting is the way to go, though th...

The multiple export of Audacity is after al behaving correctly and compliant with the specifications. However, I am not sure if those 3 extra text chunks are necessary - all information is in the ID3 tag too. The three text chunks are optional. One possibility would be to drop the text chunks, but ...

There are several advantages to using compressed format on iPods. The two main ones are that you can fit a lot more songs into the device (for 320 kbps files you can fit more than 4 times as many songs), and compressed files improve battery life (because disk reads are relatively heavy on battery po...

Not following you on this, what faux pas did apple commit? The AIFF format specification was largely written by Apple, thus the irony that the iPod Classic is not fully compliant with that standard. Not sure I follow this either. I have a new iPod classic, The 6th generation iPod Classic was releas...

and what media player will you be using? I presume that it supports MP3Gain?
Are the files already in MP3 format?

How will you be playing the MP3s when you're done?

Have a look in the Windows Sound Control Panel and set the recording level for the USB device so that you get a blue waveform that is about half the track height.
Headphones should normally go into the green socket on the back of your computer, (not blue).

Gale Andrews wrote:That's not correct if ID3 is the final chunk and Riffpad could read the previous chunks correctly.

It seems that it also depends on the number of bytes in ID3. Anyway, that was only an aside and not really relevant to the matter in hand.

Make sure that you are not getting confused between "Saving projects" and "Exporting audio files".
You will find important information about how to safely handle "projects" here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... jects.html