Audacity Forum

Hi there,

while working to separate large .wav files into multiple .mp3 I could create a lot of mp3 and import them properly into my iTunes library. But the all of a sudden I created silent mp3 files. The audacity project still shows the graphs, but playing doesn't create any sound. And for all Audacity projects I worked on yesterday. The older ones still have their sound, .wav have their sound, but for projects of yesterday the sound has disappeared.

Any help is appreciated.

sthein

The blue waves are created from two or more graphics files within Audacity, so it's easy to get them out of step with the show by accident.

What, exactly, is the show? Mixed music segments in a podcast? Unless you changed it, Audacity does not pull music into itself for editing. It uses music files live wherever on the hard drive they are. May people have destroyed a show or Project by "cleaning up" or moving files around so Audacity can't find them any more.

Did you do some housekeeping or file management after you finished editing? We warn people to Export As WAV immediately after editing as a safety backup.

It's possible for a damaged computer to do this, too, but is far more likely you did something bad by accident.

Koz

You are right, I didn't realize that Audacity is using a source in the project. So after I separated the wav into multiple .mp3 I renamed the wav to controll my progress.

In this special case I think I renamed the wav before exporting the mp3. I still got the sound graphic in Audacity, I got mp3 of a correct size, but both Audacity and mp3 were empty.

Solved!

The AUP file is an XML language laundry list of what you did and where everything is. You can open it up in any Text Editor and read it. You get killed when the listing inside the AUP is different from reality.

Koz