Audacity Forum

Hello everyone,

I have been using audacity for some time now, with no problems when suddenly I found out that Audacity stopped playing my project past a certain point (26.5secs) and I just cannot get it to play. When I save my project as an mp3, it sounds perfect but inside audacity it does not play past this point. What should I do? I have tried a clean reinstall but to no avail.

Alex

Someone else had a strange problem that was kind of similar (though not quite the same). He eventually found out it was related to his Creative X-Fi sound card. Do you have one of those?

This is an odd problem that I haven't seen any descriptions of. What exactly happens when the cursor reaches 26.5 seconds? Does the cursor stop at that point, or does it keep going past and you just can't hear anything?

Also, can you stop playback and then click the cursor past that point and start playing?

Thank you very much for your offer to help!

Nope i dont have that sound card

When it gets to 25.6 seconds, the line just stops. If I select a place after that point and try and play, it doesnt move.

Thank you again!

Alex

Alex,

have you tried exporting the project to WAV and then re-importing the WAV file in Audacity? If you haven't, give that a go and let us know what happens.

BTW: if you can get a good clean MP3 (as you have) an a good clean WAV out of the Audacity project then this should not present a problem to you, unless you need to do further editing or track labelling. Audacity projects are really just Work-In-Progress - they are not a good long-term storage/backup option as they are far from portable. WAV is the best route for storage/backup.

WC