Audacity Forum

I downloaded the 2009.02.02 1.3.8-alpha build and I could open 3 different .aiff files copied straight from AudioCD.

<<<straight off a (commercial) Audio CD>>> Good to know that earlier. Those aren't either WAV or AIFF. Those are special CDA format and they have to be ripped to work. I disagree completely with OS-X insisting they're normal AIFF files. They're not, as you found out. Change the iTunes import prefer...

OK. The file I attempted to import comes straight off a (commercial) Audio CD (78.4Mb file_name.aiff). Importing that into Audacity hangs the app. I 'converted' this to a wav file (file_name.wav) by changing the extension. Tried to import that in Audacity. Result: hang, followed by beachball of deat...

kozikowski wrote: Before you do that, open the "aiff" file in QuickTime Player and Apple-I to get the INFO panel. Is it still a normal AIFF file?

16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Stereo, 44.100 kHz

Yes.

Audacity 1.3.7, OS X 10.5.6 Intel. 1. Open new project file 2. File > Import > Audio and navigate to an .aiff file 3. progress dialog comes up, gets stuck at the end. Actual results: Audacity hangs, requires a force quit. Expected result: obviously, import that sound file :-). The same happens with ...