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When you press record Audacity creates a new track - that's normal.
The problem you are having is that it is creating a mono, not a stereo track.
Click on the "Edit" menu and select "Preferences" - in the "Audio I/O" tab select "Number of channels: 2 (stereo)"

The simplest way is to use the "Change Speed" effect on affected region. You will need to experiment a bit to get just the right speed change, so try it out on a short section first, then use "Undo" and then re-apply the correct amount to the whole of the affected region. The oth...

I've always found Audacity 1.3.4 to be perfect on XP. Did you remove the audacity.cfg before installing Audacity 1.3.4? This file does not get removed when you uninstall Audacity, and is not overwritten by the new install, so it needs to be removed manually. Since you have had Audacity 1.2 installed...

You probably need to increase the recording level using the Windows Mixer.

It sounds like you are running out of disk space on the drive that Audacity is recording onto.

I'm guessing a bit since I've not heard the recording, so you may need to work out some variation of this method to get best results. Let's say that it is the person taping was near the right hand speaker, so that when the sound pans to the left the recording goes quiet. First, duplicate the track (...

Link9rly wrote:However, I opened it up on Windows Media and it said the bitrate was 515 KBPS (see Shot 2.jpg)

It also says that it is AC3, not Microsoft PCM WAV. Are you sure you are looking at the same file? Very strange.

I've not seen this problem in quite a while - are you using an old version of Audacity?

Unfortunately the time line always shows seconds (and decimals, depending on the zoom level), however, by typing numbers into the selection toolbar you can move to precise positions, and the selection toolbar can show either the end position, or the length of the selected audio, so much of the "...

Please do not double post - it makes it confusing for everyone.
See here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6511