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The reason the Audacity Developers are totally unaware of this is that they do all their development, testing, troubleshooting with the Linux version. They never bother with the Windows version, which the majority of users are working with. So never having used it, they haven't discovered this omis...

Try this sticky thread for 1.2: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 12&t=16871

and for 1.3: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 16&t=16111

WC

-How can you cut and paste portions of sounds to blend? Quck answer to your question 2: Editing 101 - basically you will want to: 1) Import each song onto its own separate track - use Tracks >Add New > Stereo Track to get a new track. 2) Edit each track down to the time portion you require. 3) Use ...

All other comments are welcome re:complexity of Audacity and if it is newbie user friendly. Well we all started off as Newbies at one stage or another. As you know Audacity is driven by a GUI (Graphical User Interface) - this is ientended to make life easier (but it doesn't always happen that way -...

In 1.3.x try Edit > Preferences > Devices and set Channels to 2 Stereo

Or in 1.2 Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O and set Channels to 2 Stereo

WC

On both my PCs recording 60 secs gives a 60 second correct pitch recording with Audacity.

1) Desktop Dell Dimension 2400 with External Edirol UA-1EX soundcard

2) Laptop Dell Vostro 1710 with on-board Realtek souncard

So I'm still puzzled.

WC

I suspect you may be in Pause mode rather than Stop mode. Lots of stuff doesn't work when you are only paused.

BTW if this is a critical unrepeatable recording I would also suggest experting a safety copy as a WAV file (use settings 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM stereo).

WC

For the answer to your third question, please see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... s_and_iPod

WC

You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support. Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC & MP2 in 1.3. The screech is Audacity 1.2's inelegant way of telling you that it can't handle the file type you've given it - in 1.3.x a more appropriate and informative...

Record the whole LP, split it up into songs with labels - and then use Export Multiple.

See: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... uter_or_CD

and: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ate_tracks

WC