And does this mean going digital to analogue and back again? Yes Dennis, unfortunately it does. Which also means if you re-export to MP3 you will inevitably increase further the MP3 compression damage - no way round that. BTW you are lucky that your PC is set up to enable you to record what is play...
It sounds like you have your Audacity Preferences set to record in mono - it is the 1.2 default setting, and if you install 1.3 after using 1.2 then it will carry forward your 1.2 Preferences to your 1.3 Just go to Edit > Preferences > Devices and in the panel you will see a section labelled Recordi...
It's odd that you say it plays ok in Quicktime, but not in iTunes - as AFAIK iTunes uses Quicktime to do the playing. What bitrate are you using for your MP3s? And since you are using iTunes why don't you use Apple's compressed format AAC? You can export lossless WAVs from Audacity, import them into...
The control you need to use to do that is the "Pause" button - or you can used the keyboard shortcut by hitting the P key. If you want to you can customize your Audacity interface by swapping the use of the spacebar and the P keyboard shortcuts. You can do this by editing from Edit > Prefe...
I'm no lawyer - but muy understandinf is that it is ok in the UK provided you inform the other party in advance that the call is being recorded. Consider the use case of calling a call centre (bank, utility co. etc.) - often the initial pre-recorded messsage will warn you that "calls may be rec...
The other tool that is good for removing clicks and pops is Brian Davies' ClickRepair - it costs $40 (but you do get a 21-day free-trial) - see this sticky thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1994 <<<Maybe I should put them back in the box and save for another forty years>...