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Thanks for that suggestion for a test scenario, Andy. I'll give that a try when I make the purchase.

There are two upsides of not re-importing:
1) saves a lot or work and time
2) keeps more iPod space free - hence more music.

WC

john, When you select the envelope tool the wav graphic changes to show surrounding blue lines - these lines can be used to control the amplitude. Cicking ur cursor at a particular point will ceate little whit dots These dots can be dragged down and up to decrease/increase the amplitude - and it tra...

I'm not a Vista user myself - but there have been a lot of posts about problems with visat - there are sticky threads at the top of the forums about working with Vista.

WC

You can find your version of Audacity by clicking on the Help>About Audacity in Audacity. 1.2.6 is the latest stable version - 1.3.5 is tha latest Beta software. As you are a new user you should really be on 1.2 You can find the manual and tutorials at: http://audacityteam.org/help/ - the tutorials ...

Have you tried reading the manual and tutorials and FAQ on the Audacity site - they are immensely useful

All available from this page: http://audacityteam.org/help/

You should find plenty in there to help you with advice on how to setup and record.

WC

In 1.3 View>Toolbars>Show Meter Toolbar should do the trick

In 1.2 try View>Dock Meter Toolbar

WC

USB devices have a habit of hijacking the entire sound – output as well as input – and they don’t tend to have loudspeakers (hence “no sound”). What you need to do is to direct the Windows sound output to your PC's soundcard Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices>Audio>Sound Playback - and make this...

Timed recording is available in 1.3 (works fine for me - but only a single event , I'm actually listening to a timed recording made with Audacity last night while I was asleep) - so should be there in 1.4 when it ships later this year.

WC

Gale,

this is great info - is it going to make it into the 1.4 manual - I think it would be useful in there.

WC

Then, what is seen in that drop-down selection is normally entirely dependent on your soundcard and its associated driver software. Have you tried updating the drivers fror your soundcard? Try searching t'interweb for the latest drivers.

WC