Audacity Forum

I'm new so please forgive me for my ignorance.

I have several purposes for needing audacity one of which I am trying to get through but have lots of issues. i want to "import" a CD stereo track then record additional tracks with it. I have Windows XP, and most of what I have is a bit old as far as software. Like I said I'm pretty new to this. I have loaded the FFmpeg and the CDex files. I have ripped the MP3 file to the WMA format and am able to import the file to Audacity. It appears that I am not able to playback the WMA file and it locks up my computer.

The CD is some original tunes and I need to put down some lead guitar tracks.

Can any one help me on this, please. Thanks

Steve a.k.a. G-Dawg

You have CD - a commercial CD - or one you mafde with MP3s on it?

If it is a proper CD then you should be using ripper software to extract WAVs from the CD (there are several available for free on t'interweb - even iTunes can do this for you if you get its settings right).

MP3 is a delevivery format, not a production format. All MP3s have damaged burned as a reesult of the compression to get a smaller filesize for a portable player. So you should always work in WAVs and Audacity projects and then as your final step export an MP£ of the required bitrate.

WC

WC,

Thanks for getting back to me on this. The singer in the band had the tracks recorded and his voice(s) and left sections for guitar and steel guitar licks to be put in. I received it over the internet in an email as an MP3 file.

Last night I discovered another problem. I opened Audacity and just wanted to record a track; pushed the pause button then the record button and it took 2 minutes for the tracks to appear on the screen. When I pushed the pause button to begin recording the program locked up. I may try to reload Audacity to see if that clears the problem. I think it may have something to do with Windows Media Player 11. I'm trying to scrape that program off my computer. I lost access to my email through Outlook as well.

G-Dawg