I recorded a voice-over on a single mono track and saved my aup3 project on my computer last night. I didn’t shut my computer down until this morning, when I tried to reopen it, i got this message : “Audacity failed to read from a file in …”.
After following all steps, I tried to open the newly broken.recovered.aup3 file but have this new message : “a track has a corrupted sample sequence” (translated from french)
Therefore, I tried to extract the audio from the .aup3 file, but the hexa code is too complicated to understand and fix.
I’m very confused and need help if someone has a solution for me.
I downloaded the files and tried running the Audacity project tools on them. I couldn’t get it to work at all. Whatever happened seems to have corrupted (or corromped) the project beyond repair.
AUP3 files are more complex than regular audio files the special database format requires some “features” that may not work on external or cloud drives.
When working “live” (when Audacity is open) your AUP3 and temporary files should be on an internal NTFS drive. After you’ve saved the project you can make a backup to an external drive, network drive, or the cloud. But move it back to your internal drive before re-opening.
I recommend that you always export to WAV or FLAC files immediately after recording. Keep backups of those files and your AUP3 files if the project is critical, especially if there is no possibility of starting-over and re-recording. If it’s super-critical keep multiple backups at different locations as you would with any important data.