Audacity Forum

Makes good sense to me - I never like over-large projects myself as the processing time is far too long An example was last weekend I set up a 1.5 hour timed recording - but Audacity failed to switch off - so I ened up with a project of over 9 hours. It took absolutely ages to just to trim it down t...

Yes, but as Koz is fond of pointing out - Audacity projects are not production files - theye are an audio development environment. You really need to be exporting a set of WAV files or compressed MP3 files - for transfer to CD/iPod and MP3 player - and it the Audacity labels that determine the track...

A good place to look for tutorials is the Audacity Wiki - see: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

WC

Personally, I've found 1.3.6 to be more stable on Windows XP than v.1.3.5 OK Steve, I'm gonna be brave. I've finally downloaded 1.3.6 ...... WC UPDATE: Phew, just did a test recording from FM and got a a lot of crackly hiss overlaying the signal - thought that's blown it - tried it on 1.3.5 and sti...

Should be - but be aware that CD buring software will often add an intertrack gap of 2 seconds or so (Red Book guideline for CD's). But it is often possible to set a flag/switch so that it creates a "Gapless album".

WC

You obviously know about Audacity labels and their use in track creation - but no, as far as I am aware there is no way of creating the sub-tracks you require.

WC

And I would add: make at least one backup copy of the WAV file on a separate disc (speaking as someone who had a disk crash on my external RAID drive last weekend - but fortunately with a second USB disc with a full set of my WAV files - phew .....).

WC

Not sure why you are adding silence (with the Generate Silence function) to the inter-track gaps. I transcribe a lot of LPs what I do to the intertrack gaps after capture and cleanup is to fade out the end if the prior track (if needed), dade in the succeddding track (if needed) - then select the in...

I don't suppose you ever exported a WAV file of the project at any stage? If so you should be able to open that. Audacity projects can be problem children at times - very brittle and easy to break if you are not careful , which is why posters on this forum often recommend exporting as WAV at various...

Are you downloading from the right place? This is the official Audacity site : http://audacityteam.org/

I run XP-Pro and have downloaded both 1.2.6 Stable and 1.3 Beta version with no problems.

You may need to be logged in as an administrator - do you have administrator privileges?

WC