Audacity Forum

:D FIGURED OUT A WORKAROUND... Hi, I did a bunch of experiments and came to the conclusion that the problem was a combination problem involving file size AND something about using the mp3 output from a freeware application, Switch. Small .mp3 files converted from .wma in Switch were fine, larger one...

Gosh -- I thought I had replied to this... but guess I got interrupted & never posted it... Anyway, I actually have the latest iMac -- just bought it in November and I LOVE IT!! But guess I didn't realize that there was a built in mic! So I did record a little snippet of something... still don't see...

Thanks Koz... I did change it to the Documents folder, but the same thing happened... First it asks "Do you want to create it?" Then tells me to restart Audacity, but even after that there's no file. I can't test your idea about recording, cause I don't have a microphone yet -- right now I just use ...

Well, I have just short of 140 GB free on my hard drive. I'm a little confused, though... Under "Directories" tab in Preferences, there is a place for temp files... the designated directory did not exist, so I changed it to be in my "/Applications/Audacity 1.2.5" directory, and after I browsed there...

Thanks for the suggestion, Koz... but it does open and play in QuickTimePlayer. Perhaps I should tell you that this file is one that I originally recorded on my digital voice recorder as a .wma file. I converted it via the Switch application to the .mp3 file in order to edit it in Audacity. I have f...

When I tried to open a large MP3 file (69.3 MB), I get a box titled "Error Opening File" with the message "Could not open file xxx/yyy/zzz.mp3" I have had no problem opening smaller files before, so am wondering if this is a file size issue. I have version 1.2.5 for MAC and am running under Leopard ...