I was working in a project this morning and after adding a track, the audio dropped out of all tracks. The waveforms went to flatline and it only played silence.
At first I thought it was the output audio device, which did get lost to Audacity for some reason. But after rebooting the app then the computer, the issue persists even with the correct audio device selected.
I thought it might have been related to the error 126 thing but I installed ffmpeg for Audacity and most of those went away. But I can create and work in a new project just fine even with the error 126, so I don’t think they’re related. Also, the project file size has dropped meaningfully. From gigabytes to megabytes.
How can I re-connect these audio files? I still have them in the project folder.
EDIT: I’ve since discovered I can even add new audio clips to this project just fine, but all the existing clips remain offline. I guess I just need to know how to online these clips?
Of course you should keep backups of ANY important files and it’s a good idea to save backups periodically if you have a “big project”.
And I always recommend that you make regular audio files (WAV or FLAC) immediately after recording, whether you are making an Audacity project or not. These formats are “simpler” and more robust than Audacity AUP3 files. Of course you should back those up too, if they are important, or if there’s no possibility of 'take two".
Hi there, thanks for the reply. I don’t record in audacity, I use another app for that. I was only using it for multi-track editing stems.
I did manage to save the project by copy/pasting the clips from an earlier backup I had made. Which left just that morning’s work to recover, which I was ale to re-assemble from memory.
However, based on the destructive nature of editing in Audacity generally and the pantheon of simple problems that are just accepted in the software, I have since switched to Reaper.
