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What version of Audacity are you using? Please give us all three numbers from Help > About Audacity... . Are there any error messages when you reopen the project? If so, please post the log from Help > Show Log... so we can see the errors. Does the project show ...

Hi again

Just thought I'd pop back. With the suggested EQ and minimal noise removal (the 666), I've been able to consistently get my noise floor well below -60, sometimes below -70.

Thanks for your help
Miranda

If the goal is just to understand the words, you can help a tiny bit with Effect > Equalizer: Telephone preset. You're never going to make a theatrical presentation out of it. It's massively damaged. Just a note, some of that damage could be the MP3 ...

I listened to it last night and woke up today and both files are only at 4 mins! You opened up the exported file and then opened the saved project and they were 50 minutes? Did you put the computer to sleep or close the lid? Did you stop or shut down the computer? There are systems where the virus ...

I saved the project on WAV and exported it to audio to have both That's not quite what we said. When you get done with the interview and before you pack up, File > Export the raw interview immediately as WAV and make a protection copy. I still have original raw interviews on backup I shot years ago...

I saved the project on WAV and exported it to audio to have both .. when I was done editing the whole 50 minutes was there so I saved it with the name on both formats. I listened to it last night and woke up today and both files are only at 4 mins!

... to listen to my music while driving to work. It's lousy, congested, 45 mins each way. I tried changing the filenames. One song is Beatles' "Help" so the filename is help.mp3 , doesn't get any simpler than that. The prices for the 3 players that refuse to play are about 20 bucks each ...

...Just some advice for the future. Export to WAV immediately after recording, and optionally save to an Audacity project. And if you are paranoid, backup the original WAV to a thumb drive or to a CD or another computer if you're on a network, etc. Remember, computers are the least reliable things w...

I recorded an interview that I did with someone and went to edit it. Right at that exact point you left out a step. I recorded an interview and exported a WAV and put it on a separate thumb drive in case something goes wrong. Not Responding is pretty serious. That could mean pieces of Audacity went...

Both the WAV and the Project are 4 minutes?

Koz