Wanting to create separate tracks

[cea040548]

(1) I'm a new Audacity user. I have one long WAV file containing multiple songs from a concert. I would like to be able to separate the one track into multiple song tracks. Can't figure this one out. Please help.
(2) The WAV file is in stereo. When I import it, it shows the 2 tracks. It will record to mono and playback okay, but when I change preferences to 2 channels, nothing seems to record or can be played back. What am I doing wrong?

[steve]

(1) I'm a new Audacity user. I have one long WAV file containing multiple songs from a concert. I would like to be able to separate the one track into multiple song tracks.

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ate_tracks

It will record to mono and playback okay, but when I change preferences to 2 channels, nothing seems to record or can be played back.

What are you recording from?
What do you have selected in "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O"

[cea040548]

The source file is a WAV file on my C drive that was ripped from the CD. Audacity would not read the .cpa file on the CD. I/O settings are: Playback Device - Microsoft Sound Mapper Output; Recording Device - Microsoft Mapper Input; Channels - 2 (stereo); no selection for Play Other Tracks for Recording New One; no selection for software playthrough.

[steve]

Audacity would not read the .cpa file on the CD.

That is correct (assuming that you mean .cda tracks), Audacity does not have the ability to read audio tracks directly from CD (though that is a feature that I would like to see included, even if it's just integration with an open source CD ripper rather than being actually written into the Audacity code).

no selection for Play Other Tracks for Recording New One;

That should normally be selected, though it's not the cause of your problem.

So what exactly is the problem?