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I regularly process lots of tracks containing narratives that need to have identical silence durations at the start and end of each track. I hand-edit each track now to get the needed silence. Is there a way to automate or batch process, the silence duration at the beginning and end of every .WAV f...

I'm part way through writing instructions for how to do this using Ubuntu. The wiki page is not quite complete yet and there may be errors, but it may be some help: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Stere ... _Ubuntu_10

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel

Audacity 1.2 hooked up on the same hardware records in stereo. Audacity 1.2 records a "2 channel mono track". The left and right channels will be identical. Unless you are using a stereo microphone the recording should be a mono track, which is what Audacity 1.3 does (with most set-ups). ...

How much free disk space do you have on your hard drive?
How long is the "compiled" audio project?

That's a sound card setting.
You have your sound card configured to record from "Stereo Mix" (may be called "Mix" or "What U Hear"). You need to configure the sound card to record directly from the input that you are using (for example, from the "mic" input).

RD Hall wrote: I can read in an MP3 file but I can't play it. I get an error on audio output.

You mean that you are able to "Import" the MP3 file?
What's the error message?

The easiest way to split a stereo track into two mono tracks is to use Audacity 1.3.x You can download the latest version of Audacity 1.3 from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ To split the stereo track into two mono tracks, click on the name of the track, then from the drop down menu, select ...

I'm going to have hundreds of projects too Why is that? An Audacity Project is a "work in progress". An audio file is the "end product". It's usually a more efficient working method to complete the job and export the audio file rather than building up a collection of hundreds of...

kozikowski wrote:Which is apparently Windows-only.

I think the Graphic EQ view should be available on all platforms.
What happens if you click this button?