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So do you get the same problem with headphones and speakers?
Are you talking about external speakers, or speakers in the laptop?

AAC and mp3 are not the same - they are different types of compression. (different codecs)
If they are AAC and you can convert them to wav first, you should have no problem importing them.

Using 1.3.4 on Windows:

Export as uncompressed AIFF gives 3 options - 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit.
At 16 bit the file size is the same as 16 bit wav export.

Perhaps a bug in 1.3.3 that's now fixed?

http://audacityteam.org/audacity-manual-1.2.zip
(To use the downloaded manual, unzip it and then open the "index.html" file.)

alatham wrote:A very quick (and dirty) way of doing this involves the "fast lookahead limiter" included with the LADSPA effects pack:http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins

Cheers alatham, I was going to suggest that, but I couldn't remember where I got the "fast lookahead limiter" from.

" Save " = save Audacity project - you cannot play this, it is the Audacity project file + a folder of data for Audacity. Do not edit, move or delete any of these files if you wish to continue working on the project. The Audacity project does not play in Media Player, and cannot be directl...

Well that's some progress. It sounds like you are now able to export the wav file and burn it to CD, but you are probably burning it as one long continuous track. The aim of doing the "Export Multiple" is to end up with a number of wav files - one for each track on your CD. It is most impo...

Have you got USB2 enabled on your laptop?
(If you're using USB1 with the microphone, it could be that causing the bottleneck.)

The vocal remover works by "subtracting" one side of the stereo track from the other - anything that is dead in the middle of the stereo field, (such as the lead vocal), will be identical on both left and right channels. Therefore when you subtract one channel from the other, anything that...

As suggested by kozikowski, this is not an Audacity problem. First check your Windows mixer settings. Try connecting headphones to your soundcard instead of your speakers - if the problem is fixed then the fault lies with your speakers/amplifier or leads. - if the problem persists then the fault lie...