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Roy wrote in a PM: Hi. I am trying to upgrade to Audacity2.0 as you advised in reply to my last post. I have to use the library computer, so I need to download onto my memory stick in order to transfer it to my computer. But the system is trying to download it direct to the computer, which of course...

Very embarrassing, but at least I'm okay. Perhaps others have info on file saving protocols. Glad you got it sorted ok. You might like to take a look at this draft page we are working on regarding backup strategies (for either the Manual or the Wiki) - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/User:B...

kozikowski wrote:There is an upper limit to the length of time that Audacity will record. At 44100, 16-bit stereo, I think it's around 12 hours. I'm looking for the documentation.

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... #remaining

WC

The buttons look much like the buttons on a tape recorder. On a tape recorder the Stop button just stops playback, it doesn't usually stop and rewind, so I think that it is a reasonable argument that "stop here" (stop and set cursor) could be considered the normal behaviour and "stop...

That looks a perfectly acceptable recording level to me - from looking at the meters you appear to be peaking at around -9 to -6db which represents roughly the 0.5 level on the default linear scale on the waveform (which is what we normally recommend). You don't really want to go too much higher tha...

Yes and yes - 2.0.3 has many bugs fixed over the 1.3 Beta releases.

WC

It's designed that way to try to protect folks from accidentally losing their projects - and lots of 'em still do :o :( Like you I don't use projects most of them time for my LP transcription work - I just click the "no" on that message :geek: BTW many other software products do exactly th...

And there is a tutorial on using ESB TTs: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/re ... ables.html

WC

Oh and the transfer to iTunes workflow should help too: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sa ... tunes.html

WC

This set of tutorials from the Manual should walk you through the process: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html This recommended workflow should be useful too: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html WC