Hi. I’m using Audacity 2.1.0 on Windows 10, and I just ripped the audio from a cassette. After deleting unwanted silence, labeling each song, and SAVING THE FILE, I used a couple of effects. (Definitely Normalize, I think Amplify, maybe one or two others.) I don’t remember what the last effect I used was that caused this, but now the waveforms and the labels have both disappeared! The audio still plays just fine, but I had planned on exporting the labels so I’d have files for separate songs. I can’t do that without the labels, and I can’t add those back in without the waveforms visible.
I’ve tried restarting my computer; no luck.
Anybody have any idea what I can do about this? I really hope I can retrieve those labels that, again, I’m 100% positive I saved.
Do you mean “Saving the Audacity Project” or “Exporting an audio file”?
Note that an Audacity Project is not just one file. It is a file AND a folder.
Example, if you save a project as “my-project”, Audacity will create
a file called “my-project.aup”, and
a folder called “my-project_data”
The folder contains the audio data for the project. The file contains instructions that tell Audacity how to structure the project.
If you delete or modify the “_data” folder, you will damage or destroy the project.
Thanks for the clarification-- my mistake. I saved the Audacity Project, which still plays the audio but doesn’t display the waveforms or the labels I added. What I would like to do is export the audio as separate files divided by the labels, but I can’t do that because the labels are gone.
Thanks-- I’ll do that. Do you think that’ll solve the problem?
