Audacity Forum

1TB Fusion drive [whatever that is] That's a tiny, fast as a speeding rabbit Solid State Drive, married to a conventional, motorized spinning platter, much slower but larger hard drive. I think the idea was you were supposed to be able to get most of the advantages of an SSD without the stiff cost....

WAV (Microsoft) 44100, 16-bit will store a mono (one blue wave) sound file out to about 12 hours.

4GB.

Koz

how many minutes/hours of sound file we can have in a given project?

Projects used to be limited to 13 hours, but I think that limit is longer now.

An ACX book chapter is limited to 120 minutes. WAV files have a limit too and I forget right this second what it is...

Koz

You can have your Audacity Projects, too, but at minimum, you should have: MyGreatNovel-Chapter1-Raw.wav and... MyGreatNovel-Chapter1-EditMaster.wav There's a restriction on filenames. Upper case, lower case, numbers, -dash- and _underscore_. That's it. Today is 2020-08-12. No slashmarks. Since you'...

Why is it only happening in some chapters? There's no good way to know. Troubleshooting is borderline magic in good times, and you apparently don't have good times. Because there are so many Blue Yetis around, we pretty quickly discovered how the curse worked and how to prevent it. We even have a &...

Like that.


I did that by stacking up all the chapters and push them sideways with the Time Shift Tool (two sideways black arrows. But I think there's a shortcut.

Koz

I wanted to hear my .aup files Just a caution here. You don't have "aup" files. You have Projects with AUP files and associated _DATA folders. It's a common error to lose, move, damage, or rename one or the other and that chapter will no longer open. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pi...

There was a forum poster who tried to publish both at the same time. It wasn't fun. I can find the messages if you want.

Koz

I havent published the book yet. This is a quote from the ACX publishing page. Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 2.26.38 PM.png We can help with the technical and submission requirements. That's from here. https://audible-acx.custhelp.com/ Also from their help pages, there is a list of "bad" book...

And because I haven't been Suzy Sunshine yet. Can I buy your book on Amazon in paper or eBook?

Koz