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If you click&drag in the timeline above the waveform display, Audacity should play the clip wnen you release the left mouse button. The other useful thing you can do with the time line is to click in it, if no audio is playing then playback will start from that point, if audio is already playing...

go to Edit > Preferences

Tracks should be the sixth item down in the white pane on the left hand side of the dialog box - click on that

WC

I dealt with this for my LP/tape transcriptions by buying an external USB sound card, specifically one with its own gain control. I use the Edirol UA-1EX, some of those are still available but it has been superseded by the Cakewalk UA-1G. When I do use the PCs onboard souncard (a SoundMax) to record...

Go have a look in your Audacity preferences in the Tracks section. There is a check-box in there that says "Automatically fit tracks vertically zoomed" - make sure that this is not checked on or turn it off if it is so.

WC

This tutorial on podcasting from the Audacity Wiki should help you achieve what you are trying to do: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Creat ... h_Audacity

WC

Sounds like a bad connection for the right channel somewhere. Check that the headshell is securely home (if it is a removable one) Check that all the 4 connectors are securely pushed home on the catridge -do this carefully If using RCA leads to connect to amp/computer then check these are ok - swap ...

You're welcome - glad to have been able to help

WC

If you create a label at the selection you should be able to File > Export Labels ... to an Excel spredsheet which should give you the timings you require.

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Label_Tracks

and: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/File_Menu

WC

In 1.3 Audacity should auto-recover for you on start-up (unless you tell/told it not to). Trying to thread together all those files is hard work - in 1.3 they are not numbered randomly and not sequentially. For a straight capture it is usually best to sort them by date/time order - but I suspect you...

You have probably stumbled into the infamous Bug no. 137 (see http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137 it's a long read ... )-. It has proved a hard one for the developers to track down and is one of the two critical bugs that are preventing us from getting release 2.0 out the door. If y...