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Ok so I JUST started using audacity to mix music. I've literally spent the last 10 hours making a mix non stop, and been saving every few songs. i dono what happened i almost dropped my beats by dre and i looked back at the screen and every song instead of wave lengths is just a flat skinny line. It wont play music. So i closed it and opened it again and ITS THE SAME THING OMG....... im freaking out here i spent hours on end on this. someone please help me out!!!!!!!!!

UGHH i dont understand this is stressing me out. if i open a new audacity and import a song its all good. but my original is messed up. all flat horizontal lines on the 0. no sound. every song is in the normal place though i dont get it!!! There has to be a way to fix this please help!!!!

Have you been making the mix by importing audio files (in particular WAV or AIFF files)? Have you been moving. renaming or deleting those files? Or dismounted a CD that you were importing from.

Have a look at this page from the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects

And do yourself and upgrade to the latest Audacity 1.3.13, released yesterday (it's nominally a Beta but it's a very mature Beta and IMHO the best Audacity yet). You can get it from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

WC

yes i moved them as i did every song but i moved them back to the original folder, then closed it, re-opened, and its still the same! what do i do? i cant start over i spent all day doing this

You'll need to get them back to exactly the same location, with folders and files named as they were before.

You can stop this happening in future by setting your import preferences to "safer" rather than "faster" - In 1.2.x go to Edit>Preferences>File Formats

In 1.2 and all earlier Betas the default setting has been "faster" which has caused problems for many users. In 1.3.13 the first time you import an uncompressed audio file a warning dialog box apppears to let you make and explicit choice over which import method to use.

WC

I did move them all back to the same folder, and nothing has worked so far... guess i have to start everything over.

But before you do that, do reset the import preference as I suggested above - and ideally install 1.3.13

WC