Two Sides Recorded Simultaneously

[Nuts4Caats]

I see part of my mistake, which resulted from my not seeing the whole section on track labeling, so I did not do that before I clicked on Multiple Export. Be that as it may, I find the instructions confusing, to say the least.
(1) The section on labeling said to keep clicking on the - zoom pointer in the toolbar after the first label, but that only resulted in the tracks getting narrower and narrower, and beyond the 2nd or 3rd one, I could not even see where the next one began. So I just put the song titles anywhere. That's the only label I wanted to mess with.
(2) Are the tracks in the order of 1st song at the top and last on the bottom? My sense was they were going up as I was recording. So I started at the bottom, and perhaps that was the problem.
(3) The advice in the labeling section was to use WAV format to export and then convert to MP3 in iTunes. But I could find no instructions about how to do that conversion. Plus, there are two WAV options in the dialog box, both labeled Microsoft, and I randomly chose the 32 bit float option. Have no idea whether that was correct because it was not in the instructions.
(4) The path you offered as to where to save the file does not exist on my computer. I only have home/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/list of artists. I will attach a screenshot.
(5) Finally the album title appeared in iTunes though I had to double click in the music folder before it would do that. When I tried to convert it to MP3, I could not because the only non-grayed-out choice in the Convert menu was Apple Lossless. So there must be instructions somewhere that I cannot find. That evidently produced another file. However, neither of them will play when I click on them in the Recently Added pane of iTunes. This works with CD imports, so I thought it would in this import as well.
(6) I also see only 7 tracks recorded even though I listened to and watched all 11 being recorded. They all had silence between them, but I'm still wondering if perhaps in some cases two or more songs were recorded as a single song. Is that possible? I left at least 2 seconds after I paused recording on the 1st side, and I believe there were 2 seconds before the 2nd side started to play. Not sure about how much I left at the end.

This is the first of a 200-cassette transfer project! So purchasing them is not an option either in terms of availability or cost.

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[Gale Andrews]

Black magic at work?

I would personally never, ever export audio directly to the itunes folder...

Saving in the "Automatically Add" folder is official Apple advice: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19606?lo ... cale=en_US.

Personally I would never, ever use iTunes.


Gale

[Gale Andrews]

All the things you claim are not in our instructions are there. You need someone to help you on location. This cannot be done remotely. Computer Technicians can be found in your phone book. Point them to the documentation pages we have already shown you.

If you still want to go it alone, delete all your Audacity labels and relabel the start of all the songs carefully. Click (not click and drag) then Command + B to add a label that marks a point. Use one Audacity track. Do not use multiple Audacity tracks stacked on top of each other - that is expert usage. Export as WAV (Microsoft) signed 16-bit PCM, or AIFF.

If you are not sure how to use iTunes, please contact Apple Support (they do offer telephone support, which might make things easier for you). Here is their support page for "Automatically Add to iTunes": https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19617?lo ... cale=en_US.

Gale

I see part of my mistake, which resulted from my not seeing the whole section on track labeling, so I did not do that before I clicked on Multiple Export. Be that as it may, I find the instructions confusing, to say the least.
(1) The section on labeling said to keep clicking on the - zoom pointer in the toolbar after the first label, but that only resulted in the tracks getting narrower and narrower, and beyond the 2nd or 3rd one, I could not even see where the next one began. So I just put the song titles anywhere. That's the only label I wanted to mess with.
(2) Are the tracks in the order of 1st song at the top and last on the bottom? My sense was they were going up as I was recording. So I started at the bottom, and perhaps that was the problem.
(3) The advice in the labeling section was to use WAV format to export and then convert to MP3 in iTunes. But I could find no instructions about how to do that conversion. Plus, there are two WAV options in the dialog box, both labeled Microsoft, and I randomly chose the 32 bit float option. Have no idea whether that was correct because it was not in the instructions.
(4) The path you offered as to where to save the file does not exist on my computer. I only have home/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/list of artists. I will attach a screenshot.
(5) Finally the album title appeared in iTunes though I had to double click in the music folder before it would do that. When I tried to convert it to MP3, I could not because the only non-grayed-out choice in the Convert menu was Apple Lossless. So there must be instructions somewhere that I cannot find. That evidently produced another file. However, neither of them will play when I click on them in the Recently Added pane of iTunes. This works with CD imports, so I thought it would in this import as well.
(6) I also see only 7 tracks recorded even though I listened to and watched all 11 being recorded. They all had silence between them, but I'm still wondering if perhaps in some cases two or more songs were recorded as a single song. Is that possible? I left at least 2 seconds after I paused recording on the 1st side, and I believe there were 2 seconds before the 2nd side started to play. Not sure about how much I left at the end.

This is the first of a 200-cassette transfer project! So purchasing them is not an option either in terms of availability or cost.