Exported WAV has an "error" - Help

[ydbybdt]

This is my first Audacity project. I need some help. I transfered a live Christmas musical performance from a cassette tape into Audacity. All tracks in Audacity are Stereo, 44100 Hz, 32-bit float.

I successfully exported 14 tracks from Audacity into WAV format. I spot checked a few seconds from a few tracks to make sure they were OK. They played fine in Media Player 9.0. I did not listen any track in its entirety.

I tried to add the WAV files to a play list in RecordNow 7.3 [out of support by Roxio] but get "Missing or wrong type of files". I never had that problem with WAV files created in the other audio recorder I had before my hard drive crashed in January.

So since the tracks played in Media Player, I tried to burn them from there. I created a play list but when I tried to burn a CD, it gives a message "Media Player cannot play the file. The file is either corrupt or the player does not support the format you are trying to play."

Any ideas or suggestions? Should I have used 16- or 24-bit instead of 32-bit float? If so, is there any way I can "down convert" in Audacity without having to re-record everything?

Thanks for any help you can give!!

[steve]

Yes, for an audio CD you need 44.1 kHz 16 bit

Try Audacity 1.3.5 beta (just been released and looking good) - You can set the project rate from a drop down list in the main screen (44100), and you can set the bit depth from the options when you export (Microsoft PCM 16 bit WAV).

[kozikowski]

The natural format for Audio CD is 44100 at 16 bits, but I think the objection that the software has is the 32-bit floating business. I've made good Audio CDs from 48000/16.

Koz

[steve]

The natural format for Audio CD is 44100 at 16 bits, but I think the objection that the software has is the 32-bit floating business. I've made good Audio CDs from 48000/16.Koz

This depends on the CD burning software - in Nero you can make Orange book standard CD's from MP3's, 48kHz 16 bit WAV's and various other formats - it converts then to 44.1 / 16 before it burns them. It does not handle 32 bit audio files though.

[ydbybdt]

Thanks to everyone for the info! I was afraid I'd have to re-record the whole thing but I just changed the default WAV export to 16-bit under Preferences and re-exported all the tracks. I was able to add the tracks to RecordNow without an error. I think that took care of it.