Audacity Forum

I have a couple of Audacity projects, working off imported WAV files. Everything went fine for a while. Then after I exported, I noticed that in the export, there is silence of maybe 3-5 seconds every once in a while.

When I went back into the project file, to play it back, I'm getting the same intermittent silence. The display of the sound wave does not show a flat line, but it is playing back silent at these intermittent points.

Suggestions?

Thanks, Lee (a new Audacity user, and new to the world of editing sound files altogether)

While you're editing, Audacity is standing on the original sound files and that's what it uses to build the show and the blue waveform. If you damage or move one of the original sound clips between the time you finish editing and export a sound file, the export will have holes in it corresponding to the missing clip. Since you stopped editing, Audacity freezes the last good known blue waveform so it has no idea the sound clip is missing.

People who compulsively clean up run into this a lot. The slobs, like me who leave everything lying around all the time, never have this problem. I still have sound clips from three projects ago.

No, you can't start with the blue waveform and reconstruct the missing pieces.

Koz