Audacity Forum

True. My mistake. But it would be interesting to see what Windows thinks anyway. If you exported a music file and Windows doesn't think so, then you may have a damaged file.

Which is what I think you have anyway.

Koz

<<<I don't know why Movie Maker is not compatible with my custom made mp3's...>>>

Try this short MP3 sound file from my web site...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2-Audacity1.2.5.mp3

Does that slide into Move Maker OK?

Koz

The way Windows works, it's possible to hear the show and not record anything, and record a perfect show and not hear a thing. The two are separate services.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz

You used the wrong words. The music has to not be playing through Audacity, but into Audacity. Does your screen have bouncing red recording meters and blue waveforms like this...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg

The window sizes may be different.

Koz

Which appears to be perfectly rational data management. There is one side road you could take. Audacity supports FLAC format, which is compression without the damage... http://flac.sourceforge.net/ ...and you could save some space that way. We recommend people posting clips on the forum use that. Sm...

Even the grownups who can do pretty much what ever they want and rein over a killer network always do live production on a local drive. It's not dreadful, either. I have several relatively modest machines that routinely do two and three hour productions. Two hours works out to about 1.4GB at 44100, ...

What program made the music file? Right-click on the file > Properties > Advanced and see what type of file Windows thinks it is.

Koz

I know in a generic sense what that is. An aup file is computer programming language that looks like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg You can open up your aup file in TextEdit and read it. You may need to push your window really wide so the lines don't fold over onto new lines. Count ...

I see someone trying to digitize their vinyl library in half the time.

Koz

Audacity, particularly in the early version didn't support very many different sound formats. Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3.12 and see if that works. You can safely install both versions, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz