Importing only part of a file

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I am having trouble importing a wav file for editing. The last half of my file is cut off in Audacity. Please help.

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Probably the file is corrupted. Where did you get the file from?

Download MediaInfo ( http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Windows ). Get the version without installer, because the installer may have malware.

Drag the WAV into MediaInfo so you can see the encoding/bit depth, number of channels and sample rate.

In Audacity, use File > Import > Raw Data… to import the WAV and specify the settings you saw in MediaInfo.

There will probably be a click at the start of the file where the (incorrect) headers are. You can zoom in and delete the click.


Gale

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Thanks Gale. It was originally a mp3 of a voice over that I converted to a wav file so that I could edit using audacity because I kept getting an error message when trying to import the file as an mp3. Is there a way to import using an mp3 file?

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How exactly did you convert it to a WAV file? Renaming it from MP3 to WAV extension does not make it a WAV.

If it would not import at all when it had MP3 extension then it was probably not an MP3 at that time (or it was already corrupted).

I suggest you examine the audio in MediaInfo as suggested. We can’t suggest how you repair or open the file without knowing what audio it actually contains.

Either copy-paste the information MediaInfo gives, or File > Export the information as a text file (put a checkmark in the “Advanced mode” box when saving). Then attach the exported file. Please see here for how to attach files: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-attach-files-to-forum-posts/24026/1 .


Gale