Exporting music to CD burning softward

[audino]

...is there anyone on this list who speaks correct English who can talk me through the process step by step?

Joan,
With your Audacity projct open in front of you proceed as follows:

I wish joahn will be able to understand the instructions, but I guess it will be too hard.
I do regularly teach how to use computers to people with no skill at all like sometimes they are not even able to use the mouse so by reading the previous attempts to help him and his replays, I feel like he needs some very basic computer training first instead of giving the fault to "badly" written English instructions.

[joanh]

I do appreciate that I must seem like an idiot or half wit but I have been using computers for many years and have been burning CD's successfully for many years. There is a huge gap in the instructions as so often happens when they have been translated by a non English speaking person. I am perfectly capable of saving files, however, they are not appearing in "my music" after I have saved them and on the one occasion it did, it didn't appear in my media library so I was unable to 'click and drag'. I have to say I don't like your attitude just as I didn't like the attitude of the person I spoke to on the telephone (I imagine this comment will mean that my post will not be approved?). I bought the product in good faith and expect to be able to use it for the purpose it was bought for so I expect I will return it and shop around for a product which works and which has adequate back up. I really am so disappointed and will make my feelings heard when I send in the feedback to ebay.
I will keep trying for a couple of days and will follow your most recent advice before I give up on the product all together.

[joanh]

Thank you PGA for concise easy to follow instructions. I will give it a go. I know there is only one small, simple step I am missing, hopefully your post will let me perform the final most important step.

[steve]

There is a huge gap in the instructions as so often happens when they have been translated by a non English speaking person.

We have no control over what instructions are provided by other companies. We recommend that for using Audacity you use the documentation that is provided in the Audacity manual and the Audacity wiki.

The Audacity manual is available in the Help menu of the standard Windows version of Audacity 2.x and is also available on-line: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/
The Audacity wiki contains a lot of additional help, including tutorials and is available here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audac ... _Home_Page

I bought the product in good faith and expect to be able to use it for the purpose it was bought for so I expect I will return it and shop around for a product which works and which has adequate back up.

The company that you bought your turntable/cassette player from is not affiliated or endorsed by Audacity.
Audacity is free software that may be downloaded and used free of charge.
This support forum is "staffed" by unpaid volunteers who are fellow Audacity users. We will do our best to help you but if you have any complaints about a product that you have purchased you will need to take that up with the company that you bought it from.

Good luck with the instructions from PGA but let us know if you still have problems and we'll do our best to get you going.

[joanh]

Thanks for the prompt replies, we are giving it one more go but the whole saga is ridiculous. You buy a product which promises you can convert vinyl records into digital format and burn CD's. You then have to download unrelated software, instructions which come with the software relate to an earlier version so all the diagrams etc are nothing like what actually appears on the screen so you then download instructions from the website. Still all diagrams bear no relationship to what appears on the screen. You are then told that the software which comes with the product doesn't actually do the job for which you bought the product, i.e. to copy music from vinyl and cassette to CD so you need additional software. Nothing seems to be compatible, every time I ask a question I am directed back to the instructions I have downloaded which are incomprehensible. And to add to that, one of your 'volunteers' suggests I am illiterate, know nothing about computers. Perhaps I should go back to the days of wind up gramophones?

[joanh]

Well, PGA, I followed all your steps, turned out I have been doing exactly that all along except for saving to desktop. When I double click on the WAV icon it opens in 'Irfanview' - which is the software I use for editing photos etc and although it appears to be playing, there is no sound. This happened one other time when I did actually save to My Music and tried to open the file. I am now thoroughly confused. The only thing I can think of is to unistall and install the audacity software again? There really is something wrong here, I am convinced of that. Any further suggestions from anyone????

[steve]

When I double click on the WAV icon it opens in 'Irfanview

Good, at least you can see the files.

Right click on the exported files and select "Properties".
I don't think that you've told us which version of Windows you are using. If you're using Windows XP you can look on the "Summary" tab and it will give information about the file. If you're on some other version of Windows it will probably be similar though possibly not quite the same. What you are looking for is the file type, the Audio format and the sample rate. If you've done it right then the file should be a WAV, PCM, 16 bit.

If it is, then you are ready to burn it to a CD.
I don't know how to do that on Windows Media Player because I think that Windows Media Player is a dreadful program and I never use it.
If you prefer to use Windows Media Player to make the CD, please go ahead and use it, however if you're not sure exactly how to do that then I'd suggest using my favourite free CD burning program for Windows: CDBurnerXP http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home See here for how to burn an audio disk with Cdburnerxp: http://cdburnerxp.se/help/Audio/compileaudio

[joanh]

Thanks everyone, I really am doing everything right, it just isn't appearing on Media Player. Will try downloading the suggested software and see what happens, settings etc are all right as far as I can see.

[PGA]

When I double click on the WAV icon it opens in 'Irfanview'

OK, now we're getting somewhere. That represents a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. It also indicates that you have the file extension WAV associated with Irfanview and not with Windows Media Player. Try this next:
Right click on the WAV file icon on the desktop
Select "Open with..." and, if WMP is displayed there as an option, select it.
Does the file now play in WMP and can you hear it playing?

[audino]

And to add to that, one of your 'volunteers' suggests I am illiterate, know nothing about computers.

I know this refers to my replay but I never said that you're illiterate, what I wanted to say is that by the previous instructions given to you on this thread let me summarize that you lack that specific knowledge and specifically dealing with files.
You can return your stuff to ebay if you like but you'll make a big mistake because the problem is you not the poorly written English instructions.
You got specific links to Audacity Wiki from Admin and others so you still weren't able to understand the problem.
Not a fault because anyone who come here is because in need of support.
And not I'm not a volunteer here, I'm just one like you or any one else enjoying this forum and Audacity.
You should admit you mistakes.