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I have a USB turntable that came with Audacity and I tried to record an LP but what I got was about 200 12-second files, each one having a piece of the recording. There are two files for each 12-second piece of music, which I suppose is because it's stereo. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Charlie

Audacity will not save an audio file. Those are Project fragments -- and they're not all sound files.

Open the AUP file associated with your show and Export As WAV to create a sound file.

Koz

As Koz says ...

When you save an Audacity project as <project_name> it creates a number of things

1. a top level master project file called <project_name>.aup
2. a folder at the same filing level called <project_name>_data
3. and within the folder a sub-folder structure with lots of little .au files - segments of the recording (mainly audio clips - but a couple of them are graphics files)

When you re-open a project with Audacity you should always open the <project_name>.aup top level file. This tells Audacity how to thread together all the little .au files. It is deliberately designed this way so that Audacity doesn't have to open and work with a single humungously large file, which would hamper performance. You should not be attempting to open or manipulate any individual .au files.

When you have finished editing your Audacity project you can Export it from Audacity as a WAV file or MP3 file depending what sound quality you wish to achieve. WAV files are around ten times larger than the equivalent MP3 files but are uncompressed and thus the audio quality is higher.

WC