no 2nd track on stand alone cd play

[rafrico]

I'm using windows xp doing home music recordings in audacity1.2.x Iv'e recorded on one track and created a stereo track
so that when I burn a cd it will be in stereo. the cd came out fine when I played it on the music player in my computer, but when I play it on a stand alone cd player it plays so softly in one of the channels that it sounds like a 1 track recording. I then went back and copied the single track recording onto the empty 2nd track thinking this would help but I got the same result. I am brand new to this, it is my first recording, any advice?
Rafrico

[kozikowski]

We should get the words straight. You recorded a stereo performance that clearly included Left and Right sound and they were different from each other, right...? Like this...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg

Then you Exported a WAV music file and dumped it into the CD Authoring program...which was what? Toast, Windows Media, Veritas?

Koz

[rafrico]

thanks to Koz for the reply-- no I did not record a different 2nd track . I opened a stereo track and copied my first track to the second track , if I look at in my c drive it look and plays like two tracks , but I went back and looked at the wav file i generated and it looks like 1 track twice as loud . I am putting it into windows media to burn cds. Also my audacity page does not look like yours. I can now see why I'm only getting one track as what I thought were two tracks ended up being one wav track twice as loud, I think my ignorance at this stage of trying to learn audacity is preventing me from describing my problem very well.
rafrico

[kozikowski]

We're good.

If you have two mono shows one over the other in the Audacity window, then yes, Audacity will add them up when you export your show.

Back up one step. Where did you get the show from? Is it mono -- one one blue wave?

I'm this close to telling you you need Audacity 1.3. You can fix this in 1.2, but I'll be having a long lunch while you struggle with it. You can install both versions safely, but you can only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2.

Open your show in Audacity 1.3. Tracks > Add New Track. Select the whole show on track 1. Copy. Select track 2, Paste. Each track has a little black down arrow on the left. There are extra commands in there.

Track One, make Left.
Track Two, make Right.
Track One, Make Stereo.

Poof a "fake" stereo show -- although a mono show should open up in Windows Media.

Koz