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Do you have enough free space on your hard drive to Export the file?

I would highly recommend using Audacity 1.3.12 for this sort of thing. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Line the tracks up roughly first so they are about right. "View menu > Fit vertically" so that you can see both tracks as clearly as possible. Adjust the zoom level so that you can see ...

Can you play the files with Windows Media Player?

The very latest version of Lame is v3.98.4 Audacity 1.3.12 uses Lame v3.98.3 There should be no problem using Audacity 1.3.x for your work. I find it extremely reliable. MP3 format is not recommended for archiving music collections as it is a "lossy" format that looses sound quality each t...

"MP3Split" can split MP3 files without decoding them, so there is no loss in sound quality.
It's also a free, open source program. http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_page/home.php

The vocalist can help through a combination of voice control and microphone technique. Vocalists will tend to back off from the microphone a little as they get louder, so helping to maintain a more even level. Beyond that it's down to a combination of "dynamic compression" and manually adj...

The broadcast-limiter is not a compressor. Wikipedia disagrees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Limiting Compression and limiting are not different in process but in degree and perceived effect. A limiter is a compressor with a high ratio and, generally, a fast attack time. S...

I'm going "what's wrong with this picture..." If you experiment with some pure (sine) tones, "Plot Spectrum" gives a good indication of "what's wrong with this picture". Clipping, even soft clipping, produces loads of harmonics, and it's those that give the distortion ...

It's a tricky job, but the tool that you need is the "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" effect (in the Effect" menu).

I may have saved you some time Edgar. I've rewritten the main compressor function, ripped out most of the nonsense, and it's a lot faster now. A 10 minute track now processes in 28 seconds rather than the previous 35 seconds. In comparison broadcast-limiter takes 24 seconds for the same (mono) track...