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the x tells you how many you have, just click on the "x new messages" to view (and create/send)

WC

Ok I've done the updates in the Tutorials Shaky - Wiki still to do. See: 1) The end of step 3 in: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Your_First_Recording 2) Step 3 of: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Splitting_a_recording_into_separate_tracks 3) Monitoring in: http://manual.audacitytea...

Perhaps something along these lines should be added to the relevant Wiki articles, in particular I’m thinking of the one on ripping vinyl . . . Thanks for this feedback Shaky. One of the tutororials in the 1.3 manual already has this advice, the one with the "Sample workflow for LP digitizatio...

You would probably find it quicker if, when you open Audacity, you immediately save the empty project to its desired project name. Then do the recording and press Stop & CTRL+S to save at the end of the recordring. Repeat. This way Audacity will not be using its temporary file area, insted it wi...

As Steve and Koz have said - and also I would make sure that your record deck / arm/ cartridge are set up properly. In particular: 1) Ensure that the cartridge alignment is correct (some cartidge manufacturers provide protractors to facilitate horzontal alignment). You can use a small mirror placed ...

I've now tried the Audacity 1.3.13-Beta version exporting to WAV format and importing the WAV and saving to a new project as you suggest. The WAV format does not support some of the metadata so it is lost and has to be re-input. (I wonder what else gets lost that I don't know about yet?) The audaci...

All you need to do is to export them to a set of WAV files and then you can "open" each WAV file as a new separate Audacity project - and personally I would make sure that you have your import preferences set to "Copy In" "the "Safer" option. It doesn';t actually e...

the diagonal pattern is displayed when you have importing set to "Read Directly" from the uncompressed audio file the "faster" method. This pattern is displayed while Audacty is calculation the waveform to display - it will do this in parts (normally starting from the leftmost - ...

just a thought were all these tapes recorded on the same tapedeck originally?

Since they sound ok from the headphone socket have you tried recording fom that socket to the PC (assuming that you have a volume contol for the headphone level)?

WC

You should find this set of tutorials from the manual useful too: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CD

WC