Audacity Forum

That is exactly right. Mystery solved. If you need to play a very short sound in VLC you could pad the sound with a bit of silence before and after the sound so as to make the file long enough for VLC to play. Great. Thank you very much. I don't really need it in VLC. I just need it in a program, a...

steve wrote:

boardwalk wrote:Playing time is 0.038 sec

I would guess that with a larger file (say, 5 seconds) that VLC will play the exported file. Am I right?

That is exactly right. So basically, it is a VLC problem, so I shouldn't worry about it if that's not my ultimate use for the file.

Thanks much, everyone.

When I clipped a longer wav file down to 3-4 seconds, made it mono, and exported it, it didn't have the problem. But I tried it with my much shorter "click" file, making it mono and exported it, and it still has the problem. Plays in WMP but not VLC. It is attached.

kozikowski wrote:Create a 3 to 5 second mono sound file that exhibits this behavior and post it here.

Working on it. Should original be mono or just change it to mono?

steve wrote:So it would seem that the problem is with VLC.
Did you tell us which version of Windows you are using?

I suppose, but it's weird that it plays the original and all other wav files no problem. Just not the ones exported by Audacity.

I'm using WIndow 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1.

Weird, man! So, you've got an audio file... You can open and play it in Audacity, but VLC won't play it... So, It's supposed to be a "regular" WAV file, but there's something wrong with it or something non-standard about it... Questions - What are the format details? (Sample rate, bit-dep...

kozikowski wrote:Do they all open in Windows Media?
Koz

OK. This is strange. I opened it with Windows Media Player, and it showed that the volume was all the way down. So I turn it up, and it plays it. But VLC's volume was up, and it still is and doesn't play it.

Hello, After some searching, I've seen other posts that have been made on this topic over the years, but nothing I found seems to address my problem. I'm trying to take a short wav file and trim it, lower the volume, and export it. When I do, the resulting wav file has no sound. Things I've read and...