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I set "timer record" for 2:10 hours the next morning. Twenty minutes or so after it should have stopped, I found it was still recording. It said "recording time 2:10," "elapsed time 54 min," "remaining 1:15," but if you looked at the scale on the waveforms it was happily recording on at 2:25 min. I ...

The file opened this time. Could have been because I upgraded from 1.3.6 to 1.3.7, or perhaps, now that I think about it, on the previous attempt the file may have been on a USB drive & this time I copied it to the internal hard drive before trying to open it. In any case, thanks!

"Audio cache" was not checked. I was using 1.3.6, will try 1.3.7. Thanks! Good to hear from someone who knows something!

opening files by wombat99 » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:14 am Often if I open a long mp3 file with Audacity, even one that was created with Audacity previously, only the first 50 seconds or so appears. wombat99 Posts: 5 Joined: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:05 am Top Re: opening files by kozikowski » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7...

Using 1.3 Beta Unicode on XP machine with 111GB drive. And this mp3 file works -- I've played the whole thing on my iPod. Maybe I don't have enough RAM (512MB) -- but then how would I have been able to record this in the first place? I recorded and then exported to mp3 without saving it in any other...

41.5GB

Often if I open a long mp3 file with Audacity, even one that was created with Audacity previously, only the first 50 seconds or so appears. But if I open the same file in Windows Media Player, I get the whole thing.

Yup.

Often if I open a long mp3 file with Audacity, even one that was created with Audacity previously, only the first 50 seconds or so appears.