Audacity Forum

Do you mean the same maximum level - or the same perceived loudness - I expect the second of the two is what you friend wants. In which case you can use Chris's Compressor to even the perceived loudness out (see this thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=28276&p=79867&am...

I wish I could say the same for the Stella tape recorder. One problem is I live in a country district (Dorset) and over time I’ve found that we have very few service shops clued up on aspects of these skills. I managed to record from AC for example with help online but no-one locally had anything t...

And these songs ar in which format? We thrive on detail.

If they are WAV or MP3 (or even AAC/MP4 with 1.3 Audacity) then you should just be able to open Audacity and then import the audio files.
Personally I would copy the files from the USB stick to my hard drive before working with them.

WC

mumzy, I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn't read your post thoroughly enough... Why on earth are you going the trouble of going from vinyl to tape and then recording into Audacity from the tape ? Or is there a good reason that I am missing :? For a start you will get signal degradation with the int...

... I have made sure that the correct options have been made. The playback device is the SoundMAX Digital Audio on my computer and then the recording device is the USB audio CODEC. .. Have you made these sttings both in the Windows Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio as well as in Auda...

Good point Bill - I'd totally forgotten about that (in my defence - it's been a fair while since I set up my iTunes libraries). IIRC that's the iTunes default setting - if so then it's a dangerous default IMHO (a bit like the import settings in Audacity).

WC

Yes, rip the CD track from the CD rather than record it. There are several free ripping packagesa vailable on t'interweb.

WC

I'm an XP person and have no experience of W7 - but reading your post the one thing that rings alarm bells for me is your mention of a 6 hour MP3. Now this is a huge chunk of audio to be working on as a single audio file - is there any good reason why you are working with such large files/projects? WC

see this sticky thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 28&t=18759

WC

Still confused about Gale's concept of adding an image I think this stems from an e-discussion we had somewhere a long while ago now. I, jokingly, suggested an image of a teacher (with blackboard) as a graphic to go with the Tutorials - I wish I'd never mentioned it. -1 for adding an image Peter.