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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!!

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).

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

kozikowski wrote: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.

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.