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FLAC also includes a checksum so the integrity of the file can be validated. On Windows you can test the integrity with the "FLAC Frontend" app: http://flacfrontend.sourceforge.net/ On Mac and Linux you can install the command-line file encoder/decoder and test with the -t option: flac -t...

I guess there still could be a chance of errors Sure. There could be disk errors, faulty RAM, hardware problems... What there won't be are errors resulting from the encoding / decoding algorithms. ZIP files have been around for 30 years, and used with all manner of data, from audio, video and image...

Thanks for letting us know. Glad to hear there was a simple explanation.

Jamomix wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:56 pm
How can I put them back together without hassling too much.

"You" don't. That's Audacity's job. Audacity reads instructions from the ".aup" file that tell it how to put the pieces together in the right places.
See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/aud ... jects.html

Dabell43 wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:47 pm
cut out a section of a track and remove it while the following section remains in place

If I understand correctly, you need to do "Split Delete" (Ctrl + Alt + K). See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/edi ... ecial.html

Audacity 2.1.0 That's an ancient version. The current version is Audacity 2.3.3 and it's available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Even if I do NOT have Audacity open......should I be able to hear sound...??? That depends on the Windows Sound settings. If yo...

kozikowski wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:52 pm
neither of the suggestions worked

The person that wrote that hasn't logged into this forum since 2018

Use this webpage to analyse the problem file: https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline
Copy and paste the full information about that file from the webpage into your reply.

poison-monkey wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:20 pm
I then built the file with make

At that point, (when "make" has completed), there should be a file in the build folder called "audacity". Is there?

If there is, then you should be able to launch it with the command:

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./audacity

Does Audacity launch?

GWARslave119 wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:01 pm
take it then that the stuff said on:

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... ndows.html

isn't up to date then...?

What's not up to date?

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