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Thanks for your comments.
The beta versions are now obsolete. The recommended version is 2.0.1 which is available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

There are a number of tutorials in the manual that you may find helpful for getting to know Audacity: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... rials.html

WAV is a higher quality format than MP3, but the file size is very much bigger. MP3 is a good format for putting stuff on the Internet as it is very widely supported and the file size is usually only about 10% of the size it would be in WAV format. MP3 is a bad format for archiving, back-ups or maki...

For an alternative resonant filter, see: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 42&t=66150

Ok - so what shape of fade-out is this then ? It's the "professional" shape :P And will one be able to assign a k/b shortcut to it? Yes. (how cool is that?) and will you be providing a "Professional Fade In" too? No. How often do you hear "fade-outs" on the radio and c...

The easy way to make a professional sounding fade-out of a song. This will work well with most types of music. See here for installation instructions: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins After installing and restarting Audacity the plug-in will appear in the Effect menu as: "Pro Fade Out&q...

Make a duplicate of your vocal track and shift it to the right a bit using the Time Shift Tool.
You will need to reduce the level of the duplicate track and you may want to Eq (Equalization) it differently from the main vocal.

If Audacity has built correctly there will be a file called "audacity.exe". That is the "executable" file and you should be able to run it by double clicking on it.

I've not compiled in Windows, but I don't think that you need to make an installer just to run Audacity. As far as I'm aware you should be able to run Audacity from the build directory. Have you tried running your fresh build of Audacity?

There is a full set of tutorials covering every aspect of this job: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/help/manual/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html -6 dB is often quoted as a good guide to a suitable recording level. The really important thing is that the recorded waveform s...