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Audacity does not record WAV tracks. Audacity records Audacity Projects.
To get a WAV file you must Export from Audacity.
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ement_Tips

<<<is there any setup required to hear what i am playing.>>> Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O > Those boxes at the bottom. You may need to restart Audacity to get them to "stick." Since you are using an external USB audio device, you will probably need to also select "software playthro...

OK, fair enough. I'll just take my medication now and chill out a bit

Audacity then creates a "Cleaned" directory off of the Podcasts sub-directory, which iTunes doesn't easily read. Why can't iTunes easily read it? I want to be able to just overwrite the original files. Drag and drop, or cut and paste. When prompted to overwrite, say "Yes for all".

What version of portaudio do you have installed? I think that it needs to be at least v.18 - you may also need the dev package of portaudio since you are compiling from source.

You need to have a "line" input on your sound card. This is not the same as a "mic" input. A "mic" input is for a microphone, and a "line" input is for "line level devices such as cassette players. Most full size computers have a line input, but most lapt...

the ones recorded with Audacity have total silence where the ones recorded with the digital recorder have ambient noise to about 50% of the clip level. In addition, if I watch the waveform as I start the recording in Audacity, it seems at first to record the ambient noise and then after a few secon...

It would be quite easy to write a Nyquist plug in to do this - but why would you want to? If you are sufficiently motivated, I can give you some pointers with how to do this with Nyquist programming. (Audacity includes a partial implementation of the Nyquist programming language and enables users to...

kozikowski wrote:Please don't double post

He's actually now got 4 posts in 4 separate topics all on the same question - there have been replies to them, but he has not even bothered to acknowledge those replies. I can't be arsed to answer this question again.

Click on the line and it should remove the "dead space" and seamlessly merge the two tracks. The undocumented function Edit>Join should do same thing as the HowTo but I haven't figured out how to use it in the brief time trying it. In 1.3.6 using "Edit>Join" is very simple. If y...