Audacity Forum

I'm running of steam and running out of road here. It's increasingly sounding like a duff piece of kit (I hope you kept the receipt). You should be able to find a very cheap LP at a charity shop (thrift store) to test LP playback. You are using the USB lead to connect to the Mac (not a Mic in)? Just...

MP3 is a compressed format it throws away audio data in order to achieve a smaller file for use on portable players (so you can get more songs on the player). For a proper CD you will need to export 16-bit PCM stereo WAVs (part of the Red Book standard for CDs) - and you will need to burn a "mu...

I don't believe you can with WAV format because by and large WAVs do no carry metadata. You can either: 1) continue to import AIFF into iTunes and then use iTunes to convert to WAV 2) import WAVs into iTunes and work the metadat there (that's what I do, I find it easier to manage there than in Audac...

I see the Lenox Turntable Player TT500 has a turntable too - do records record ok in stereo with it?

WC

Take the stero track you have recorded and split it into two tracks - click in the trackname in the Track Control Panel to get the drop-down menu.

Delete the good track.

Use Effect > Amplify on the bad track

What does it sound like - music or noise?

WC

As you are on windows you may be able to make adjustments in the Windows Control Panel to damp the volume down and make Audacity's slider less sensitive.

A shortcut is to click on the loudspeaker icon in the tool tray at bottom right of the Windows screen.

WC

I have seeen postings where folk have reported having to use similar low settings - those Behringer devices normally deliver a sensible signal level, maybe you have a rogue one. Be aware that you can fine-tune the input level by using numerical input rather than the slider - just double-click on the...

You can help yourself here by enlarging the meter toolbar - see this page in the manual (halfway down). When recording try to aim for a peak level of -6 dB which corresponds to 50% on the waveform linear display. When you have finished all you other processing, as a final step prior to export you ca...

See this page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sp ... racks.html

You may be able to use Analyze > Silence Finder but it does depend on proper silence (often the inter-track gaps on LPs will fool it) and it may generate false positives.

WC

And the fourth tab on the device toolbar is set to stereo right?

WC