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If you are interested in multi-track overdubbing with Audacity you may like to take a look at this new set of tutorials in the audacity manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Recording_Multi-track_Overdubs Many thanks to Greg Kozikowski (Koz) for the initial bench-testing and write-up...

First do yourself a big favour and upgrade to the latest audacity 1.3.14 which you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ Then have a workthrogh of this set of tutorials: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_or_minidiscs_to_CD especially this one: http://man...

Probably not Steve - it's running very sweetly and stably right now, but thanks for the thought. There is a spare XP desktop of similar vintage but more RAM going spare at my wife's office so we may just commission that as the second online home machine and dedicate that smaller one to just Audacity...

my old desktop is still running Audacity (latest Betas and Alphas) on XP-HE-SP3 with only 512MB RAM.

It helps not to be running other processes while it is recording so that audacity doen't get interrupted, as Steve says.

WC

I would recommend also saving the .aiff files as a backup on an external USB disk. I create .WAV files and load them into iTunes where I convert them into AAC at 256 VBR (I couldn't fit all my my music on my iPod in uncompressed format). But then I also save two separate copies of the .WAV files on ...

In the Audacity window click on Help > About Audacity to see the version number

WC

Sometimes people dont want perfection, they just want music to sound like they remember it. Like my son for instance ... When I digitized my old 45s many of which had had a very hard like on our old jukebox, I worked hard to clean them up removing all the pops/clicks etc. When I gave him a copy of ...

On the current title. I've had to truncate a couple tracks where damage was too severe to correct. It's a shame, because it's a really good album (Anita O' Day, "This Is Anita"). You do know you can get that album on CD from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/This-Anita-ODay/dp/B00000470I ...

You're probably in Pause mode rather than Stop mode.

Click on the "STOP" button and then try saving ...

WC

And I would strongly advise against a labe/trackname/filename with periods (dots) in it !!

WC