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A "full Append Import feature" could certainly be useful. I'd imagine that much of the demand will come from people wanting to stitch together broken projects (weird that I've never needed to do that). Use Case: User wants all the "songs" on a classical CD to become a single &qu...

It's normally well worth cleaning the capstan and the pinch-roller.

When I transcribed my tapes I had my old Nakamichi BX-2 professionally serviced.

WC

These articles from the Audacity Wiki may be useful to you:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... m_Cassette

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Casse ... netization

WC

TIP: before recording an old tape us the Fast Forward and the Fast Rewind at least once to retension the tape - take care if the tape machine doesn't have a ptoper braked stop as you may ping it off the spool.

So my guess is that these two almost-instantaneous peaks were providing the upper limit for the normalise process. Clip them out so that normalise worked on the more normal levels on the rest of the track and bob's the relative of your choice. Indeed - a good "guess" The Amplify and Norma...

The Save command always saves an Audacity Project in audio format In order to get a WAV (or MP3 or whatever) file you need to use the Export command - see this page in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/file_export_dialog.html This page from the Manual is worth a read too: http://manua...

When I transcribed my LPs I used Brian Davies' ClickRepair - it cost a little but was well worth it to me as I had hundreds of LPs to work on. The results were just a liitle shy of magical - see this sticky thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1994

WC

If you want however a shortcut for "Generate Silence" you will need to create that for yourself as there is no default setting for this in Audacity. See this page in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/keyboard_preferences.html Tip: when you get the Preferences>Keyboard dialog...

Have you got the Audacity Playback slider turned up: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/mixer_toolbar.html

I think we need a few more words ...