weird editing problem

[steelie1955]

I use XP Home.
I made a backing track, using Band-In-A-Box, and recorded into Audacity by streaming it while it played on BIAB.

Nothing new there to what I have done dozens of times.

Then I edit the backing track in Audacity, sometimes duplicating parts and moving them around, and I usually end up with several tracks, with bits of the backing track on each track, so that when it is all played together, it sounds as one.

Once I am happy, I export the tracks as a WAV, to amalgamate them.

I can then play this track in Windows Media Player, but when I import it back into Audacity, there is no sound.

If I import this track into a fresh Audacity project, and then close Audacity, it saves it as 'auf' files, instead of 'aup'.

I have never had this problem before, and I haven't altered any parameters in Audacity, does anybody know what's going on?

[kozikowski]

<<<I can then play this track in Windows Media Player, but when I import it back into Audacity, there is no sound.>>>

How about if you just Open the file in a fresh Audacity instead of Importing it?

Do you have Windows set to show you file extensions? Might the file now be a Windows Media file instead of a WAV file? Audacity will not play Windows Media files -- at least in the 1.2 version. Right click the sound file > Properties > Advanced.

While the file is playing silently, do you get the bouncing green sound meters and is there a blue wave display?

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg

Or is the show a flat, non-blue line with no green bouncing?

Koz

[kozikowski]

And just because people confuse this all the time, Audacity will not Save sound files. To get a stand-alone, self-contained sound file of any sort, you have to File > Export.

Koz