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audino wrote:You got specific links to Audacity Wiki from Admin and others so you still weren't able to understand the problem.

I think the problem all along has been Windows Media Player. If joanh drags the WAV icon into the Media Player playlist then from there into the burn list, it should work, as was said a long time ago. The exact method to do that changes from version to version of WMP and we don't know what version of Windows joanh has, so we can't help.

Hopefully CDBurnerXP will be more intuitive.


Gale

Sorry to everyone if my fuse has been a little short this last few days. Having used computers for so many years I find it extremely frustrating when I just can't get my head around something. I always knew it would be one small thing which was going wrong and thanks to help from the members of this forum I now know what it is. Set up in Properties instructed the file to open to Irfanview instead of Media Player so everything was, to all intents and purposes, disappearing as soon as I saved it. Now I have forgotten how to change it to Media Player again but will work that out with your help.
Back to the drawing board.

Whoops Audino, getting a bit personal there, aren't you? I asked for help not insults. I have already admitted my mistakes by asking for help and with the required help I have found the one small step (which, I might add, isn't mentioned in any instructions) and should now be able to actually go ahead and burn the CDs.
Thanks again to those who offered constructive advice.

Thanks to you, too, Gale. The problem actually was not with Media Player itself but with the original set up in Properties which instructed WAV files to open in Irfanview so, once saved, they did actually disappear. I think I am now on the right track.

You can make WAV files always open with WMP if you want. Right-click over the WAV file. Choose "Open with" then at the bottom of the list, choose "Choose Default program". If WMP is not in the list, click the pointing arrow to show more programs, or browse to where WMP is in Program Files. Then select WMP and make sure "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is checked before you click OK.

If you are on Vista or 7, you can find Windows Media Player by clicking the Windows globe bottom left then typing "Windows Media Player" (without quotes). Then double-click WMP when it appears in the search results.

If you can tell us or remind us which version of Windows you have, we can give you much more precise instructions.



Gale

Hi everyone, me again. I have succeeded in burning my first CD - yaaaah!! Only problem is that it has recorded as one track rather than the 20 individual tracks on the record. Once again, I am sure I am doing one small thing wrong, would appreciate any help please.
Thanks again.

See this page from the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... racks.html

WC

joanh wrote: I have succeeded in burning my first CD - yaaaah!!

Congratulations

The link that waxcylinder posted should help with your other question, but feel free to post if you get stuck.
By the way, which program did you end up using for burning the CD?

Microsoft Media Player. We have never had any problems with this program so decided to stick with what we knew. Will have a look at the link to see if we can decipher it. Again, thanks everyone.