MP3 error - Project resides on FAT formatted drive...

[Trebor]

Hi, I am storing my mp3 recordings out on google drive to share with my choir mates. I get an error when i try to open the mp3. I copyed the files to other cloud sharing software and it works great.

Could just be Audacity being fussy about the type of mp3, (rather than file corruption)

MP3 Decoding failed: Lost sychronization

Audacity 2.4.2 is very fussy about MP3s. They have to strictly conform to the MP3 standard, otherwise Audacity will refuse to import them. This increased strictness was to fix a problem with non-standard files being misidentified. The next version of Audacity will be less strict / more forgiving about MP3s, so we should see a lot less problems of this sort.