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Please don't double post.

You need to use Audacity 1.3.12
See reply here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 12#p127212

Sound Finder. (near bottom of this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Analyze_Menu ) If you need to detect silences shorter than 0.1 seconds you can type values into the appropriate box (rather than using the slider) down as low as 0.01 seconds. Edit Labels (near bottom of this page: http://ma...

The mixing is what one would expect for the genre. The sound quality's not great, but that's the encoding for YouTube. The first one gets horribly distorted in the loud section but I doubt that was the case on the original recording.

This effect looked promising. The sound quality of the limiter is noticeably (and measurably) better than the "Broadcast Limiter II" as it does not suffer from aliasing distortion. So here's a new version that supports stereo tracks. In this version, the expander is complimentary to the co...

There's a slightly more sophisticated version (as a plug-in) here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=52520&p=127163#p127163 If there is a demand (and if I get time) I may develop this further to support stereo tracks and see if I can make the compression and expansion comple...

This "Peak Processor" effect can "squash" (compress) or "stretch" (expand) peaks above the set threshold level. Negative ratios produce "soft clipping" of audio exceeding the threshold by non-linear (exponential) amplification (compression). Positive ratio val...

Open the project. Left down arrow menus > Split Stereo track. Select the track with the music on it and Make Mono. [X] Delete the unused second track. That should be: Open the Project. Click on the Track name. Select " Split Stereo to Mono " Delete the silent track (Click the [X] in the t...

The Audacity settings in the Transport menu appear to be correct. Try going to Audacity "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices". In the Recording section, is there an option for "Microphone"? If there is, try that. If not, what options are available? It would help if you had Creative...

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Trans ... uter_or_CD

I would also recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/

Is the problem with one specific WAV file or do you have the same problem with all WAV files that are more than a few seconds long?
Have you tried importing MP3 files? Do they have the same problem?