audio disappears
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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
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tombuckley
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audio disappears
I have been working on an audio project for a long time and it came to the time to publish it. So I installed the lame plug in as I needed the file in a wav or mp3 format. Did it and went home for the day when I returned the audio output had massive gaps in it. I got up my project and all the graphically in places it showed there was an audio track there when I play it the audio just cuts to nothing for patches throughout the recording. This is a very important hour plus piece of audio. I don't really know why it has happened or what to do so if anyone has any ideas why the audio decidesto just go silent at points i really would appreciate it.
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kozikowski
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Re: audio disappears
<<<So I installed the lame plug in as I needed the file in a wav or mp3 format.>>>
We got a pretty good idea what happened.
Audacity doesn't Save Sound Files. Your real intention is to Export your Audacity Project as a WAV or MP3. If you have been producing your show for a long time, your Audacity Project is a collection of thousands of files all managed by the AUP file. The AUP file keeps a careful list of show parts and their locations.
If you move your AUP file or delete, rename, or move anything even remotely associated with your show, the Project (show) will become damaged. The blue waveforms on the timeline are created by two of the thousands of Project Files and can very easily become out of step with reality -- especially if you decided to "clean up" or rearrange your computer.
Another trick is to disconnect an external drive that you were using to hold portions of your show. Since Audacity never actually took the music from your external drive -- it's using it in real time -- that portion of your show drops dead.
So what did you move or delete by accident? Where was the original file or material that vanished?
In rare instances, computer damage will cause this, but the vast majority of cases are caused by the editor human.
Koz
We got a pretty good idea what happened.
Audacity doesn't Save Sound Files. Your real intention is to Export your Audacity Project as a WAV or MP3. If you have been producing your show for a long time, your Audacity Project is a collection of thousands of files all managed by the AUP file. The AUP file keeps a careful list of show parts and their locations.
If you move your AUP file or delete, rename, or move anything even remotely associated with your show, the Project (show) will become damaged. The blue waveforms on the timeline are created by two of the thousands of Project Files and can very easily become out of step with reality -- especially if you decided to "clean up" or rearrange your computer.
Another trick is to disconnect an external drive that you were using to hold portions of your show. Since Audacity never actually took the music from your external drive -- it's using it in real time -- that portion of your show drops dead.
So what did you move or delete by accident? Where was the original file or material that vanished?
In rare instances, computer damage will cause this, but the vast majority of cases are caused by the editor human.
Koz