New to Audacity software, was able to download music from LP. But the files generated a bunch of \booooo.aud files, and when I tried to open the one file I get error while processing, inserting silence
You need to tell us a bit more.
What equipment involced?
What cabling between the equipment parts?
You granted access to “microphone” for Audacity in the system settings?
What settings for Audacity?
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Desktop computer windows 11 , I downloaded music LP’s using audacity software 1.2.6 to extrernal drive. the files created were side-1_data and side-1, side -1_data has the b00000 to b00112 files. the side-1 file type is audacity project file
Audacity 1.2.6 is ancient. I’m amazed that it ran at all.
My advice is to download Audacity 3.7.8 and start over.
I would add don’t save your project to an external drive while working on it. At some point you will have issues. Record and edit on an internal drive and copy it later if you need to.
Does that explain getting the b0000 to v00112 files?
I have downloaded the 3.7.8, OMG have to start over with the 100 LP’s I thought I downloaded and worked..UGH… thanks
Before you embark on that mammoth task, it’s worth trying it with the new version first. If you are willing to share one of your projects, I’ll try it too. When you say ‘download’, do you mean record?
Yes. Older Audacity versions used to save a project file with .aup as file extension, plus a folder callde similarly with “_data” at the end containing small files. To use the saved project, both two items (file and data-folder) need to be there, in the same directory. This is how it worked in Audacity 2.x, no idea whether this already was the case with Audacity 1.x.
From Audacity 3 on, everything is contained in one big file with file extension .aup3.
Both, the .aup and the .aup3 project files/folders ar not sound files. Yor work needs to be exported in the desired format (.mp3, .aiff, .wav… whatever) if you want to listen to it.
If you have already recorded some LPs, I’d first try to export to a sound file using your antique Audacity version. MP3 at those times was a copyrighted format which Audacity could not export without installing a separate encoder (LAME). So I would export to .wav / .aiff first and then use another external converter to .mp3.
Or you (try to) open the .aup file in Audacity 3 and export it from there.
In any case you probably would like to split your LP sides into tracks. Read the Audacity manual which describes how to do this using “labels”.
Audacity 2.4.2 should be able to open 1.2.6 projects. You might be able to save some of them this way:
But first transfer them to a local drive.
- Open the project in Audacity 2.4.2
- Save it as an Audacity 2 (.aup) project
- Open the project in Audacity 3.7.8
- Save it as an Audacity 3 (.aup3) project
Rinse and repeat. Faster than re-recording all those LPs.
Audacity 2.4.2 is available here: Releases · audacity/audacity · GitHub
Just to be clear, you want to open (for example) the side-1.aup file, not any of the bxxxxxx files.
If this works, your could use romontschun’s method of exporting to WAV or AIF. I don’t recall how 1.2.6 handled exporting, so opening them in 2.4.2 might be the better option.