Audacity Forum

I'm getting this oddball focus behavior by right-clicking the sound file and Open With... http://www.kozco.com/audacity/noise_32bit.wav This one is seriously magic. It was created and exported as a 32-bit floating WAV file. QuickTime Pro thinks it's 16-bit and Audacity 1.3.8 opens it as 24-bit. Have...

<<<There have been a couple of reports of people on YouTube doing amazing things with film sound tracks>>>

I have exactly the same problem. I'm having trouble removing my Loch Ness Monster. Can you help?

Koz

<<<Does the new machine need a sound card upgrade?>>> Probably not. They're making that harder and harder to find. Certain laptop Windows machine deleted the tools altogether. Did you crank through the help systems on the forum? Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixe...

Audacity Projects refer back to the original sound files, and that's if you opened up the Project. If you're opening an exported WAV or MP3 file, you're pretty much dead.

Koz

<<<file to edit it>>>

A few more English words would be good here. Are you trying to open up an AUP file? Is this a performance you captured earlier with your own fingers? Is this something you got from the internet?

Koz

<<<no illegal characters are anywhere in the file,>>>

Hmmmm. That's what almost always gives this error. What are one or two filenames?

Koz

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html The pink nose file near the bottom of that page is a well behaved 48000, 32Float, Stereo wav file made on Cool Edit 2000. It opens up in CE2K, and Audition on the PC that made it with the correct info panels. It also opens up in Mac QuickTime Player which gi...

<<<Given that 4 out of the 5 primary features of audacity[1] involve editing a single file, would it not be worth making that process easier?>>> I have asked that question with these fingers multiple times. I've even posted examples of software packages that cover both worlds--Save in either native ...

<<<headphone socket of a Mac.>>> That's still rough to believe. Which Mac? Apple > About This Mac > More Info > Hardware > Machine Name And what exactly did you do to fix it? Remember this is an all volunteer cast of thousands so you need to share how you fixed your problem. Koz

And yes, that is a sore point.

"Do you not want to fail to delete the recovery files [Y/N].

Wait, what...?

Koz