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Can't hear tracks
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:17 pm
by kellywilke
Working on a multi-track project. Suddenly---inexplicably---some tracks won't play, or only a part of the track will play. The track hasn't been silenced, and is not muted. What is happening? Sometimes, when I get out of Audacity and come back in, everything's okay. Other times...same problem.
Re: Can't hear tracks
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:08 pm
by kozikowski
You should start using 1.3.11. Audacity 1.2 can have some serious problems with larger shows on newer machines. Audacity 1.3.11 should open up your 1.2 show. It doesn't work the other way.
A multi-track Audacity Project, unless you changed it, is referencing potentially hundreds of different files around your machine, some music, some not. Audacity doesn't (normally) pull music inside itself for editing.
Therefore, your computer needs to be in perfect condition, not running anything else, and have a roomy, thoroughly defragmented hard drive for this work.
If you don't do all that, a multi-track show will start to fall apart and play funny or have pieces missing at odd times.
Defrag
-- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining) > Tools > Error Checking & Defragmentation
No audio (or video) machine's hard drive should ever go over 90% full. If you've never defragmented your hard drive, get a cup of coffee. It might take a long while. If your drive doesn't pass an error test, then you need to take steps so it does. If your drive is too full, get a garbage bag out of the garage and empty the hard drive of all the trash you don't use any more.
Koz