Audacity Forum

every time I try to use silence finder in1.2.6 and vista the computer tells me audacity did not reconize this type of file and I should import it raw. The problem is I have no idea what this means. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Just so we don't go barking down the wrong road, here. Do the other filters and tools work? Noise Reduction? Amplify?

If you picked up this sound file by the side of the road one day, you may have a file that Audacity doesn't know how to manage. It will seem to play OK, but none of the tools will work and you will get a funny export--or no working sound file at all.

Koz

I got this audacity program from a turntable I bought to convert my records into wave files and burn them toCD. The silence finder is a plug in program I got from the audacity site. I think everything else in the program works.

<<<a turntable I bought to convert my records into wave files>>>

USB turntables cause no end of problems. They're cheap, inexpensive, and they don't cost enough. They only have the simplest possible USB interface, so if anything at all goes wrong, they start producing funny sound files, odd captures, or actual sound distortion and damage.

It's possible your turntable produced enough damage that Audacity can't figure out how to manage the tracks with the new plugin. That's the note for you to reopen the file as a "foreign" format and try that. It's not going to help.

It is possible you got a damaged download and you can try to pull it down and installing it again.

However, Silent Sense is not God's gift. It never works very well--especially on Your Favorite Records which always are a little noisy.

Far better to use the Control-B Label tool. It's not that hard. Press Control-B at the beginning of each song you want to export to the CD. Five minutes of getting used to looking at the blue waveform will tell you quickly where the lead-in tracks for each song are. After that, Export > Multiple and dump all the individual files into your CD authoring program.

Many people spend more time fiddling with Silent Sense to get it to work reliably than they do actually producing their CD.

Koz

Thank`s Koz