NO SOUND GENERATED UPON EXPORT

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hi there,

I’m working with Audacity version 2.0.6

I’ve been editing a MPEG-4 audio file for quite some time and have now exported it with no success. Every version/format I export produces no audio. I’ve assessed this through importing them into Audacity as well–and there is no amplitude. I’m not sure how I could go wrong–editing with Audacity.

PLEASE HELP!

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That is odd. Take a screen capture with Audacity (Shift-Command-3) or draw a box around Audacity (Shift-Command-4) and post it.

https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-post-an-audio-sample/29851/1

Have you done this millions of times before? In Audacity, you have blue waves and the green sound meter jumps when you play the work, right?

Did you make a protection copy of the original work, maybe on a thumb drive or on the same drive under a different name?

You do get an export, but it’s silent?

Try this. Press Stop. Click just above the MUTE button on the final track. File > Export Selection. Name it something super simple like TestFile. Don’t put any dots or other punctuation in the name. Use WAV (Microsoft… the Audacity default.

Koz

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Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly.

I couldn’t figure it out either so downloaded the application again (previous version was downloaded in September)… I reopened the file I’d been working on and tried export… and it worked? My copy of Audacity must have been corrupt? Not sure, but all’s well.

Thanks!

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I reopened the file I’d been working on

The Project you’ve been working on. It’s actually quite a number of files.

Koz

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Are you using Yosemite? OS-X 10.10.x? Audacity won’t fully support Yosemite until the next program release.

Koz