Editing Live Recordings

Well, that was fun! You heard a great show, or had a wonderful studio session, and recorded everything successfully. Now how do you get all that goodness onto a CD?

If you used a digital recorder, you need to copy the files from the recorder into your Audacity computer. I prefer to use a separate storage card reader rather than connecting the recorder to the computer because it usually works better and faster, especially on non-Windows PCs. Any SD or Compact Flash card should be seen by your PC as a generic USB storage device, but manufacturers love to infest devices that use them with weird Windows-only file transfer managers. This does not make sense to me, since Windows has a perfectly good built-in USB storage device ...

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