In 2015 I converted audio cassettes to MP3 and Wave files. Those playable files have vanished from my computer. But I saved the data folders. How do I reload the data so I can make new MP3 and Wave files.
For example in a folder for 1976 Wedding I have 210 files named
b00001.au
b00002.au
all the way to
b00210.au
They contain the information I need to make a .aup file. After that I know what to do. I just don’t know how to reload my data files into audacity.
And yes. I still have the version of audacity that I used in 2015, so they should load.
These files are part of the Audacity Project. But you also need a file named similarly like the folder in thich these .au files reside, with the extesnion “.aup”
I think if you don’t have the MP3 or WAV files AND the aup project files are missing, you will need to record the cassettes again from scratch. If it comes to that, I would strongly advise you to save the captured audio files as WAV files (whether you create Audacity project files or not). There are a few good reasons for this. You are not confined to using Audacity in the future if you want to work on the files again. You won’t need to capture the tapes yet again which is good because cassettes are not all that robust. You could burn the WAV files to recordable CD/DVD and use them as archives. In essence, take all reasonable steps to avoid being in this position again.
Since your post looks like a thinly-disguised advert (ads are not allowed on the forum) perhaps you could supply the link to the Audacity Recovery Utility you refer to.
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Thank you everyone who replied. All of you were helpful. I had an old computer stuck in a closet, and it still had the old aup files. So I am recovering my treasured memories. I’m also burning important files to DVDs so they can’t be accidentally erased.
