Save only Saves projects - you need the Export command to make non-Audacity project format such as WAV MP3 etc. If you have multiple tracks you will want to use a label track and the use Export Multiple. This confuses many people - see this thread in the feature request section of the forum: http://...
Select the portion of audio you want to make louder ( CTRL+A will select the whole project) - and the use Effect > Amplify I would advise caution in using the alternative Normalize effect as that acts on both stereo channels independently and can thus destry the stereo balance and thus the stereo im...
Of course you can do it a tune at a time but IMHO that is more complicated than the labelling/multiple export - but it's purely down to personal choice of working method.
The important bit is to enjoy the music , however you get there
What I would do is try deleting your Audacity configuration file which is where Audacity stores your preferences. You can find it in C:Documents and Settings <your_user_name> Application DataAudacityaudacity.cfg Audacity will create a new cfg file when you restart it - note that this will reset all ...
Lenny, All you need to do is to place a label at each track break - use the Ctrl-B shortcut - and don't forget to place a label right at the beginning for the first track. Then use Audacity's Export Multiple command (available from the File drop-down) to export a multiple set of WAVs, MP3s or whatev...
You are probaly over-compressing the MP3 file. The Audacity default MP3 bitrate of 128 is normally regarded as the minimum acceptable for music - I personally use 192 (my son, with younger better ears, normally uses 320). If iPodshad been bigger when I started out I would probably have chosen 256. T...
<<<How do you play a song backwards?>>> In Audacity 1.3 you might try selecting the song and Effect > Speed Change > -100%. That's Minus one hundred percent. Or use one of the other duration tools like that. It doesn't work in Audcity 1.2, but yours might. Interesting left-field thought Koz - but t...