Audacity Forum

<<<the program seems to freeze up while it does some kind of disk housekeeping for a couple more minutes.>>>

Possible hardware problem. Can we assume you're on a PC, you've never defragged your hard drive and it's over 90% full?

Koz

One more trick. Pull down either of these short WAV files and see if they work.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

Koz

Make sure your Audacity Preferences are set for 44100, 16-bit, stereo. Open up the music file and export it again. WAV files don't get damaged when you do that and it might clear up your problem. Make sure all the information to the left of the timeline is what you expect.

Koz

<<<Yes, the wav file is in that format.>>>

Which format?

Koz

Where did the song come from? Are you the musical performer? Unless you personally made the MP3 file, it may not be MP3. People assume all compressed sound files are MP3, and that's not true by a long way. I don't think Windows Media will tell you stuff, but if you download the free Apple QuickTime ...

Is your music WAV file in 44100, 16-bit Stereo? Audacity wakes up from First Birthday in 44100, 32-Floating, Stereo, and some programs have no idea what that is.

Koz

<<<I want to re-separate tracks from audio files I've created from a recording of a record album. >>> Next time you capture a record album, Export each side as a simple WAV file. Glenn_Miller_Stockholm_Side1.wav. That's your archival backup. Then open each WAV file later and Control-B (label) each s...

Getting there. Why 1.3.2? That's kind of an older version. I think the last stable release was 1.3.5. I have that on multiple machines and it seems to work OK. Nothing like the problems 1.3.6 and 1.3.7 have. Anyway. I personally make an Audacity folder, pile all the programs and files into it and dr...

<<<"there is no default application specified to open the document "libmp3lame.dylib.">>> It doesn't open. It's not a program. It's a Dynamic Library--dylib. In Windows this would be a DLL, Dynamic Link Library. Audacity consults with these libraries to figure out how to make an MP3 f...

It should be possible to change the project sample rate with the little button in the lower left. If you Export a WAV file after you do that, the new file should be at the new sample rate and undamaged--except for the mud you make by reducing the sample rate too far. 22050Hz will not carry good fide...