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Instructions here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/noise_removal.html
More noise reductions tips and suggestions: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Removal

While you have all of the files as separate tracks, use the Mixer Board (View menu) to adjust the levels of each track. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/view_menu.html#mixer Tip: keep an eye on the playback meter to ensue that the mix does not hit the red (0 dB). manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/me...

Cutting very low frequencies (below about 150 Hz) can often help improve the intelligibility of speech. Try Equalization settings similar to this, then use the Normalize or Amplify effect to bring the peak level to -1 dB. For best results, try experimenting with the Equalization settings to see what...

For compressed audio formats, Mac tends to favour AAC, Windows tends to favour WMA and Linux tends to favour Ogg Vovbis. Everyone does MP3 because it is the most widely used. AAC and WMA are proprietary formats. MP3 is subject to a number of patent and licensing claims that have been hotly debated f...

VST bridge was used to add basic support for VST effect in the (now obsolete) Audacity 1.2.x series. It is not required and should not be used with Audacity 2.x

Information about installing VST effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... st_install

As Koz wrote, Audacity 2.x should be able to open older projects. However, we do not recommend keeping a lot of old projects hanging around - the project format is not a good "archiving" format because there are multiple parts to a project (the .AUP file and the audio data). We quite regul...

For electronic books, one of the main formats seems to be M4B: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/How_To_Make_M4B_Files The software that comes up repeatedly on Google for creating M4B files is "Chapter & Verse": http://lodensoftware.com/chapter-and-verse/ (free) For Mac: Audiobookbuil...

If you don't mind linear panning:

For random panning, it might be easiest to end the random control signal a bit early, then swing across from the current pan position to the desired end position. Or to look at it another way, fade out the end of the random control signal to an offset value. Something like: (let ((dur (get-duration ...

Do you have Audacity set to record from "Stereo Mix" in the Device Toolbar?