Audacity Forum

You don't have to post anything. I would not be going through MP3 in order to make a Music CD. Most if not all Music CD Authoring programs are perfectly happy and in fact greatly prefer WAV files. Music on a CD is in sorta WAV format anyway in 44100, 16-bit, Stereo and if you change Audacity prefere...

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Koz

What are the specs? 44100, 16-bit, Stereo, Little Endian?

You have Windows set to show you file extensions, right?

Koz

<<<Yeah that didn't work. I guess I can't get it back then?>>>

No. Crash Recovery works on the file structure that was interrupted in the wrong place (crash!), not one that you "helped" a little bit.

Koz

<<<it gave me the nonsense about two audacities being open.>>> What it meant to say was two instances of Audacity opening up the same Project. That is profoundly unstable. You can try the crash recovery tools, although your machine didn't actually crash, the result is the same. <<<Crash Recovery htt...

Audacity > About Audacity. It's also possible it's under Edit or under Help. Audacity 1.2 was the transition version. You have a funny cross. PowerPC and Leopard is not a recommended cross, but it should work. You may be running Audacity 1.2.6 with that machine. That one is friendly with Power PC ma...

<<<Nope, they are all the same type of file, and all are ambient sounds that I recorded.>>> Shucks.... You need to stop shooting me down like that. I bruise pretty easily. I'm just now paying attention to the forum header. Are you really using Audacity 1.2.5? Are you on an Intel Mac with Leopard or ...

Here it is:

Open iTunes and Control-Click on the music > Get Info > Summary > Kind > Protected AAC Audio File.

That's from my Cascada album.

Koz

Audacity creates the AUP file as Project Manager, the _DATA folder for housekeeping "stuff," and links to all the sound files it used in the show. For example, the first two files in the _data folder aren't sound files. They're picture files and they help draw the blue waves when you look ...

...but the WAV file is fine, right? That's why we tell people to constantly Export their work as WAV. They're hard to break. Audacity Projects are way more complicated than just one simple AUP file. That's not a sound file. That's a management file that points to all the music files, segments, and c...