what happened: recorded a song succesfully, the wave was visually displayed and i made a successful audacity project file
problem: a month or so later i go to load the file, the wave is still visually displayed but there is no playback for the APF file or the .BAK file. i get an error message saying some data files are missing only when i load the .bak file.
i understand what it means to have files missing, my question is if the wave is still completely visible is there any possible way for the computer to read the apparent visual que of the wave and then reproduce a new data file? again, the wave is complete in its appearence and i only get the error message when i playback the .BAK file. any possible solutions to any degree of difficulty would be appreciated!
thank you
Wave apparent, but no playback
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Re: Wave apparent, but no playback
<<<i made a successful audacity project file>>>
You did a lot more than that. You saved an Audacity Project which is a whole pile of files and folders. Audacity gets its editing efficiency and speed by not creating one sound file, but by assembling your show on the fly as you play the timeline and edit. It's the electronic equivalent of somebody building a freeway just ahead of you while you drive and then taking it back up again after. There never was a freeway there.
The only way to get one single sound file in Audacity is to use one of the Export options. You can't recreate any part of your show from any other part. The fact that your blue waveforms are still there means the first two AU files inside the _DATA folder are undamaged. Those are picture files.
This kind of thing happens when people "clean up" all those unused original sound files or lose the capture directory by not knowing what it was or why it was there. It also happens when people try to move a project either to another hard drive or to another computer. As a practical matter, that's almost impossible.
There was someone else that posted with a similar problem. They had a fresh, clean project where their show used to be and a backup project which pointed to music files no longer there. If you open up the AUP BAK file with WordPad, you might look for directories buried in the programming. That's where the AUP file is looking for your music.
I don't know that we ever solved his problem, and we're not likely to solve yours either.
Koz
You did a lot more than that. You saved an Audacity Project which is a whole pile of files and folders. Audacity gets its editing efficiency and speed by not creating one sound file, but by assembling your show on the fly as you play the timeline and edit. It's the electronic equivalent of somebody building a freeway just ahead of you while you drive and then taking it back up again after. There never was a freeway there.
The only way to get one single sound file in Audacity is to use one of the Export options. You can't recreate any part of your show from any other part. The fact that your blue waveforms are still there means the first two AU files inside the _DATA folder are undamaged. Those are picture files.
This kind of thing happens when people "clean up" all those unused original sound files or lose the capture directory by not knowing what it was or why it was there. It also happens when people try to move a project either to another hard drive or to another computer. As a practical matter, that's almost impossible.
There was someone else that posted with a similar problem. They had a fresh, clean project where their show used to be and a backup project which pointed to music files no longer there. If you open up the AUP BAK file with WordPad, you might look for directories buried in the programming. That's where the AUP file is looking for your music.
I don't know that we ever solved his problem, and we're not likely to solve yours either.
Koz