Audacity Forum

You have CD - a commercial CD - or one you mafde with MP3s on it? If it is a proper CD then you should be using ripper software to extract WAVs from the CD (there are several available for free on t'interweb - even iTunes can do this for you if you get its settings right). MP3 is a delevivery format...

waynefmckinstry wrote:One small question, what is the Audio Position box for?

It tells you the current playing or recording position.

WC

This article from the Wiki may help you: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CrashRecovery

But are you sure you cannot recover the .aup file? Is it by any chance still in your wastebasket?

WC

Ok. Tried connecting the rca's to the line in jack in the back of pc and it sound okay. Still would be nice to connect it via the usb though. No clue as to why it sounds distorted via that usb port. It sounds me me as though the USB services on your ION are broken. I would also have suspected the o...

Ed, I think the developers are trying to be helpful by offering you more options here

However if Audacity can be fixed so that it remembers your preferred setting then that should make it easier for you to use.

WC

See this page from the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... _Reference

and this one: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... references

WC

And some CD players are sensitive to the make of blank CD - I would certainly avoid using cheapo non-brand ones - and do not use CD-RW.

Personally I use TDK CD-R80 all the time - and they always play on my CD deck and in my car.

WC

When I recently installed the updated driver for my Edirol USB soundcard I noted that in the instructions it advised that: Performance Options" settings of System Properties Our tests show that occasional disruptions in the sound may occur if the following setting is not made. By making this se...

What you should try is a compessor that is often recoommended on the forum - Chris's Compressor: http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ See also this thread from the forum: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=28276&start=0 IIRC he built it to make listening to opera i...

You might find this workflow tutorial that I wrote recently for the 1/3/2.0 manual useful: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... _to_iTunes

WC