Hi
Many years ago I recorded my audio story tapes on Audacity but seem to have saved them (incorrectly it seems) as folders which all have at their root ‘e00’ and then there are lots of ‘d00’, ‘d01’ etc subfolders and within each of those lots of .au files. How do convert these to one mp3 file?
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks
Peter
I’m not sure if this is what you have but the old AUP Project format was a .AUP file along with a lot of small .AU files in a sub-folder. If I’m remembering correctly, the sub-folder has the same name as the AUP file.
If that’s what you have, you may be able to open the .AUP file. The newer versions of Audacity can open, but not create/save the old format. Then it’s just a matter of exporting as MP3.
…If Windows isn’t showing the filename extensions, you may need to enable that to see the “.AUP”
The new project format is an AUP3 file with everything in one big file. But you should ALWAYS export as WAV or other regular audio format, and keep backups if it’s important.
Thank you for replying to this/ The files were created around 2012!.
For each audio recording I have one ‘e0’ folder followed by lots of ‘d0’, ‘d01’ etc folders each of which have lots (very many in each folder) .au files. I don’t see any .aup files however? Are these able to be converted into one mp3 file for each recording or do I have to start again with my audio tapes? Thank you for the reference to how to manage the old versions of Audacity files but I can’t see a way of opening my ones with the File/Open option
If you don’t have any aup files you are a bit stuck. They hold details of the other files you mentioned and Audacity needs them to know what to do with all the fragments. If the tapes are in good condition I’d suggest doing them again to be on the safe side. And do follow DVDdoug’s advice about saving as WAV. If you do that you will be able to open those in ANY audio editor or digital audio workstation (rather than just Audacity) and you won’t be in this situation again.
Good luck.
Mark B
Hello
Thank you that.
Ah well it is what it is! I will just have to re-record the tapes but will do so in WAV format as you suggest.
Thanks again
Peter
The saga continues!
I have found another set of folders which contain .aup files.
However when I try to open them I get the error message of ‘Couldn’t find the project data folder…’
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Old Audacity versions saved projects as follows:
- one project file, with the file extension “.aup”
- one folder containing all files belonging to that project
The folder is named the same as the file, and it must reside in the same location. One cannot be used without the other.
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What he said, plus a note or two.
The .aup file and the _data folder of the same name need to be in the same location or folder. Audacity will not go looking through the machine for a match.
If you force your computer to open the .aup file as a text file (TextEdit in my case), you get something like this.
Fourth line down, to the right (marked), the aup file points to the _data folder it is expecting. This is a good way to make sure the names are correct. All the names have to match.
Close everything. Double click the .aup file and the show should open in any version of Audacity. If it doesn’t, then something is damaged and the show may be permanently gone.
However, each of the tiny .au files is a working sound file. If the Project is a simple sound capture, from, say, a record player, it should be possible, if you have six or eight years, to jam all the .au files together into a finished song. The .au files are intentionally not sequentially numbered. The file time and date stamps may be able to help here.
If the Project is an edit instead of a simple recording, you’re dead.
This is why the modern Audacity versions don’t use the split file technique any more.
Koz
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Thank you everyone for your support and help. I put a test file etc into one folder and Audacity did load that BUT then said that there were missing files.
Eg ‘Missing file e0000005.au Inserting silence instead’
It then went on to import the files and returned another error message
‘Failed to open e00004d9.au’
However when all said and done the file it then played OK to my ears (an audio whodunnit story) BUT …
I noticed some sections when one of the channels went silent for a few seconds. I guess that is due to the missing files. (see below)
I was then able to export it as a WAV file
So maybe I have ‘got out of jail for free’… sort of…?!
On further investigation it seems that about 10% of the files in the ‘d01’, ‘d02’ folders have only 0kb whereas most of the rest are about 1mb. I am guessing that my cloud backup (PC World) has not picked up all of the files over the years (although the integrity check ran ok).
I hope that all makes sense.