I recorded a massive 8 track jam session last night. One huge Audacity project.
This morning, I started to fool around with it, realized I hadn't saved it yet, and did a Save As to my 2nd local hard-drive (Audacity's temp directory is on 1st local hard-drive)
I expected it to take some time, as there are over 13,000 raw audio files.
As usual, Audacity went into its "Non Responding" mode while doing all this, but it's never come out of it.
It only copied around 1000 of the raw audio file to it's new location, there's no "aup" file.
Looking at Task Manaager, there are two tasks, both with the new project-file-name, one with the Audacity Icon, the other with a default file icon, both non-responding. They both link back the the Audacity Process, which is just sitting there using no CPU time.
Is there a command line way or something to shock Audacity out of it's never-never land?
If not... what's the easiest way to recover my lost project? (8 tracks, 2+ hours each)
Anyway to shock Audacity into responding.
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kozikowski
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Re: Anyway to shock Audacity into responding.
Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery
However, nobody I know ever made it work. Once Audacity crashes, that's the ball game, and that's what's so dangerous about Saving Projects. Projects are brittle and prone to failure.
No live capture is complete without an exported WAV of the work. In your case at least once every half-hour or sooner. You can Save if you want to, but only Export produces actual show files. And don't export to MP3, either. MP3 is a delivery medium, WAV is a production medium.
Koz
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery
However, nobody I know ever made it work. Once Audacity crashes, that's the ball game, and that's what's so dangerous about Saving Projects. Projects are brittle and prone to failure.
No live capture is complete without an exported WAV of the work. In your case at least once every half-hour or sooner. You can Save if you want to, but only Export produces actual show files. And don't export to MP3, either. MP3 is a delivery medium, WAV is a production medium.
Koz
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Re: Anyway to shock Audacity into responding.
Yes WAVs are good - but comcon's problem will be that the he has 8 tracks - and if he exports to WAV all the tracks will be Mixed&Rendered into a single stereo pair.
If it's important to retain the track structure, for subsequent separate processing, then it will be necessary to export each track to a separate WAV file (I can see a Feature Request coming here: "Export all tracks to separate WAV files")
WC
If it's important to retain the track structure, for subsequent separate processing, then it will be necessary to export each track to a separate WAV file (I can see a Feature Request coming here: "Export all tracks to separate WAV files")
WC
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Re: Anyway to shock Audacity into responding.
Oh yes, I'd find that usefulwaxcylinder wrote:(I can see a Feature Request coming here: "Export all tracks to separate WAV files")
Can I also have "Render tracks to separate WAV files" please.
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