Six Seconds then Nothing
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The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
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satindoll02
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Six Seconds then Nothing
I was editing some files that I recorded with an outside device, and opened in audacity, and they played perfectly fine. After I was done editing I saved them, successfully listened to them all the way through, and then emailed them to myself. After that point, four of the six sound files stopped playing after six seconds, while two of them still work. I also exported into .wav files and once again, the four out of the six stopped after six seconds. The track continued to run but there was no audio. Is there a way to fix this?
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kozikowski
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Re: Six Seconds then Nothing
Did you "step on" the original files? Did you save an edited new project with the same name as the old?
It's extraordinarily difficult to move an Audacity project. You need the AUP file, the _DATA folder, and all the music files you used in the show and in the original folders and directories. If you miss anything in the process, the show stops working.
You do still have the original performance capture files, right? So you could re-edit the work.
Export a WAV file of the work at each major step in addition to the Projects and treat the WAV files as gold. Certainly Export a WAV of the final show.
There is a setting, I think in both versions of Audacity where you tell Audacity to copy files inside itself for editing. Out-of-the-box Audacity will not do that.
All that and you should be in Audacity 1.3.12, not 1.2.
http://audacityteam.org/download/
To bring this all the way around, can you get back to your original machine? That may be the only way to get the shows back.
Koz
It's extraordinarily difficult to move an Audacity project. You need the AUP file, the _DATA folder, and all the music files you used in the show and in the original folders and directories. If you miss anything in the process, the show stops working.
You do still have the original performance capture files, right? So you could re-edit the work.
Export a WAV file of the work at each major step in addition to the Projects and treat the WAV files as gold. Certainly Export a WAV of the final show.
There is a setting, I think in both versions of Audacity where you tell Audacity to copy files inside itself for editing. Out-of-the-box Audacity will not do that.
All that and you should be in Audacity 1.3.12, not 1.2.
http://audacityteam.org/download/
To bring this all the way around, can you get back to your original machine? That may be the only way to get the shows back.
Koz