Audacity Forum

Okay, I think I get it. The key is “uncompressed”. Audacity has to work with WAV files, whether saved in the project, or referencing the original files. So I still have to have either the large WAV files (optionally with small project file), or use MP3 files, which will be copied to the project in u...

Had to use my phone to enter post instead of PC, which is a real pain. Using Chrome, I just didn’t seem to have any area available to type the text of my post! Weird indeed!

I am trying to create a project with minimal size of the project files. I think I should be able to use the “unsafe” method of referring to the audio files, rather than copying them into the project. But I can’t get that to work. I have changed Import/Export setting to “Read uncompressed from origin...

Thanks for the advice! It didn't take me too long to recreate my project, as I had the basic tracks as a guide, and just had to bring in the original wav files and redo the fadeins and fadeouts. Saved with no problem this time; and I'll be sure to save often from now on!

I was working on linking four different stereo wav files to create a music sampler. When I tried to save this as a new project, Audacity closed with an error. I reopened Audacity, and it said the project could be recovered. But in the recovered version there are several gaps of silence. Gaps are on ...

[I am using Windows XP, and Audacity 2.0.2] I had an Audacity project with several versions of some tracks (bass, drums, etc). I wanted to save some space, so deleted those tracks and resaved the project. The disc space of the xxx_data folder didn't seem to reduce. So I deleted the xxx_data folder, ...