Hello list, I am not very advanced in this sort of thing, so hope you will be understanding. I can rip music from my cassettes; and it then can be played on the computer. I believe the default player is winamp. I have tried to do a little editing by using Audacity, but am having troubles. I enter Audacity, choose open, select the file I want, and enter; but it won't play, although I hear the percentages as it is exported or imported whichever it is. This means that I can't make any meaningful use of the Effects menu. Mostly my problem that I want to solve is boosting up the volume. I was told that using "normalize" might do that; but if you can't hear anything you don't know what's going on. Can anyone tell me in simple language what's going on, or what needs changing? Thanks! Bob S.