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I have successfully imported the track and edited it. Yeah!! Now I would like to know how to burn this track on to a CD. I really appreciate all the help you have given me. It has been a fun experience.
carlyon

Ah ha, I've just got what you mean. I was a little confused by what you meant by:
"I couldn't right click on it , though."
and
"When I right click on the file in Audacity nothing happens. When I right click on the file in Windows Media Player I do not get the Summary and Advanced options."

You were referring to my earlier post, when I said:
"If you right click on the file, select "Properties", go to the "Summary" tab and select "Advanced", what does it say? (please copy and post everything that it says, or post a screen shot)."

I think you misunderstood what I meant.
I was trying to show a way that you can see what format an audio file is in.
If you have an audio file, and let's say it on your desktop - you can see the icon for the file - If you right click on that icon, you will get a menu appear. It is from that menu that you select "Properties. (Nothing to do with Audacity or Windows Media Player).

carlyon wrote:I have successfully imported the track and edited it. Yeah!! Now I would like to know how to burn this track on to a CD

Sound like you are getting on well.
To burn the track to CD, you must first "Export" from Audacity ("File" menu > "Export as WAV") so that you have a normal audio file (rather than an Audacity Project file).
I would strongly recommend using a proper CD burning program, such as Nero Express, rather than doing it with Windows Media Player.
With Nero Express, you simply tell the program that you want an "Audio CD", then you select the WAV files that you have Exported, then you tell Nero to burn the CD. And that's all there is to it.

stevethefiddle wrote: To burn the track to CD, you must first "Export" from Audacity ("File" menu > "Export as WAV") so that you have a normal audio file (rather than an Audacity Project file).

Just to add to Steve's excellent advice - just make sure that you export your WAVs as 16-bit PCM 44/1kHz stereo (Which is the Red Book standard for CDs.

And do buy good quality CD-Rs and NOT CD-RWs - that way you shouldn't get too many coasters/beer mats.

WC

To set the sample rate to 44.1 kHz (44100 Hz), click the "Project Rate" button at the bottom of the Audacity window to select 44100. To set the bit depth to 16 bit - "Edit > Preferences > Quality" and select "Default Sample Rate = 16 bit".
(You can also set the default sample rate to 44100, so that you don't need to remember to set it before you export).

Thanks so much stevethefiddle and waxcylinder. I have burned the track to a good quality CD. The result is excellent. I have tried to put this edited item on to my MP3 player, but can't seem to do that. I tried converting to an MP3 file, but that didn't work. I have tried moving the file to iTunes - no luck.

Anyway, I am well pleased with what I have learned. I expect to be able to edit some music to use as background for my old photos, which I am in the process of burning to DVDs.

carlyon wrote:I have burned the track to a good quality CD. The result is excellent. I have tried to put this edited item on to my MP3 player, but can't seem to do that. I tried converting to an MP3 file, but that didn't work. I have tried moving the file to iTunes - no luck.

iTunes should certainly accept the import of MP3 files - I do this a lot with iTunes.

Or you can rip the CD that you burned with your WAV files straight into iTunes (just like you do with commercial CDs). And somewhat surprisingly, if you create a CD copy of a whole LP, you may find the the Gracenote CDDB database actually recognizes the CD and supplies the tag data - CD title, artist, track names etc.

WC

About an hour after I asked the question it dawned on me to that I should rip the CD I had made and sync it on to my MP3 player, which I have now done. It is simply labelled Track 1, Unknown Artist, Unknown Album. It is shown as a .wma file. It plays just fine so that is OK. Thanks a lot.
Carlyon