Audacity Forum

But the only tags that seem to be written to the WAV file header are Artist, Track Title, and Year. It also saves "Comment", though you're not using that. No it's not a bug. That is the extent of Audacity's support for metadata in WAV files. Most programs don't support any metadata in WAV...

Considering the price I wouldn't expect miracles - you can pay more than that for just the USB lead.
How loud do you have the mini-disc player turned up?

The plot thickens.
I'm glad that I mentioned in the bug report that there may be more than one bug here.

Pleased to hear it's OK now. Let's hope it stays that way.

There's worse things than getting a PC, such as getting a Windows PC

What sort of USB sound card is it? (make/model number)

And my understanding is that these imported files are linked within the aup file rather than copied into it. They can be either. Uncompressed files (such as WAV files) can be either linked or copied (see here for a full explanation: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects ) In what way...

That sounds right.
I don't think that Audacity has any way of knowing which parts should be 2 channel - Audacity will just see 6 audio streams.

RWH wrote:why can't I re-create a new mp3 (with the correct settings)
by extracting from the original Audacity project?

You should be able to do that.
Does the Audacity Project sound good?

I've looked through Audacity options, searched WIKI and internet and there is no description how to turn off the remove noise step during export or import audio data from/to Audacity. That's because Audacity does not have a "remove noise during export to file" feature. What lead you to th...

I think the problem has more to do with the format conversions than it has to do with Audacity. These people will probably be able to help you better:
http://www.doom9.net/
On that page, click on "Quick Links" and select "More".
Also check out their forum.