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You had some weird characters in the id3 tag (metadata). This may have already been in a file that you imported, or you may have just entered some non standard characters if you filled in the metadata yourself.

What does hldj need?

(For example "16 bit (Microsoft) PCM 44100Hz stereo WAV" )
You need to say the format, the bit depth, the sample rate and mono/stereo.

Excellent Kevin, and thanks for the detailed feedback. Purely as a matter of interest, I've now got Audacity 1.3.12 running on my test box which now has a Ubuntu 10.04 (alpha) based system on it. It is pure ALSA+Jack (no PulseAudio at all) and Audacity is running really sweetly with Jack. Of course ...

You don't need to worry about Audacity's "Tracks", they will sort themselves out. Set Audacity's Preferences to 2 channel, 32 bit, 48000 hz. The 32 bit setting will not improve sound quality, but it will avoid loosing quality through any processing that you may do (such as Amplify, Equaliz...

It's certainly not unpleasant, but I agree that the cardioid pick-up has more "immediacy", and for solo guitar I also prefer the cardioid response. It's interesting just how much difference there is - if ever you want to record a more "background" type sound, you now know exactly...

about the microphone, the thing is, i don't have one <_<, which is something i forgot to mention... A fairly "key fact" to miss out :D but that explains why you are recording nothing. Your current set-up is for recording the microphone. This one http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/Dr...

See here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 12&t=28327

Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O > Channels: 1 (mono)
Record.
File > Export as WAV

Play the WAV file - it will come out of both speakers.

Audacity Projects are not sound files so there are no other programs that can help you out here. Projects are designed to be a working environment for your audio production. They are not designed for long term storage. The idea is that you do your recording, process, edit and export your finished wo...