Audacity Forum

Hello: I'm not sure where to post this so I posted it here and on the windows unstable beta forum also.

I am using Audacity on a Vista Home Premium computer.

I'm new to Audacity. I love the fact that I can record and add to other audio I have in my music folders.

Here's my problem. I want to use the new file that I created on my Mp3 player. I want to transfer (export) to Windows Media Player 11. (I like the file size of WMA and so I prefer to use that.) How do I do that?

I tried to export it as a .WAV file to my 'Spin it Again' program in an attempt to change the .WAV file to a .WMA file but I can't find the .WAV file or get it to work on my 'spin it again' program.

So how can I go about exporting the audio file from audacity in a file format that then can be recognized by Windows media player? I tried the MP3 export but it didn't work even with the 'lame' download. I can't find those files anywhere. I just want to make the files into WMA files. How can I do that? What other free programs can I use to change it into a WMA file?

I haven't seen any other questions regarding this (believe me I've looked) and so, obviously, no answers. I'm I asking too much?

Any information will be greatly appreciated. I am a basic novice so any instructions will need to be the 'for dummies' version. Thank you.

Isn't it true that anything you present to Windows Media Player is automatically converted to WMA? That's actually one of the problems as you can't stop it.

Koz

Hey Zed,

the best way to find your .mp3 files u made is to load a song into audacity, go to file>export as mp3 it will then open a window called "save mp3 file as" there you should be able to see your previously exported files. If you then click on the "save in" drop down box it will show you the path and folder name.

once you have the folder you can dra and drop them into your mp3 player ... the lame codec is tiny and you wont notice much of a size difference by converting it to WMA.

hope it helps