transferring files from mac to PC

[helenski]

Hi there, I'm new to the group today, hope I am posting this in the right place, and that someone might be able to help.

Working on a project away from home, I loaded (stable) audacity onto a Mac (OSx) and worked away as usual, creating some wavs and mp3's along the way.

Returning home to my PC (vista) I loaded the files I had saved onto a portable device (iriver multi-codec player) and found that:
audacity files will not open. If I click the icon of an aup. file i get 2 types of error message:
'error, not well formed at line 242'
and (for a different file) 'the file you selected is an audacity project file. only audio files, not project files can be imported into an existing project. to open a project file, select open from the project menu'.

When I have audacity open, and try to open the files using 'open' on the project menu, the second error message 'the file you selected..etc' appears.

the wav. files open fine in windows media player, but feature a loud scratchy sound right at the end of each file.

the mp3's are fine.

I have a deadline today so I'm just rerecording everything...
however, any advice for the future - what was going on there, and is it possible to work on audacity between PC and mac?

many many thanks,
helenski

[kozikowski]

<<<is it possible to work on audacity between PC and mac?>>>

I'm going with no, or certainly not easily.

What happens if you open up one of your Mac WAV files on your PC Audacity? I wasn't clear on exactly what fails from your question. That particular job I do all day long between three different platforms (Linux, Mac, and PC) and that should work.

But you can't move projects, so that kills the AUP file right there. You know the AUP file is a supervisory XML programming file, right? It's not music. You can open it up in WordPad (or TextEdit) and read it. Projects consist of clouds of files which can get sprayed all over your machine(s). The job of the AUP file is to keep track of it all. Scan down the AUP programming and you might see a directory statement like:

aliasfile='/Users/koz/Desktop/piano2.wav'

That's the location of some piece of my project. If either the AUP file or that music file isn't right there when I open the project, the project fails. In addition, on a PC, that same statement has the slash marks going the other way. Userskoz....

I suppose the desperation method would be to produce the MP3 files in the best possible quality. Those are practically identical to the originals. In what format did you try to save the Mac WAV files?

Koz

[helenski]

thanks v much for writing

<<<is it possible to work on audacity between PC and mac?>>>

I'm going with no, or certainly not easily.

and I'm going with you on that!

What happens if you open up one of your Mac WAV files on your PC Audacity?

Opens fine, and the waveforms are all normal until right at the end when there was a big clipping noise. Very short, so I was able to just cut it off and still have what i needed on the file(s). So that wasn't a big problem, but I am mystified as to why the noise was there.

If either the AUP file or that music file isn't right there when I open the project, the project fails. In addition, on a PC, that same statement has the slash marks going the other way. Userskoz....

that's interesting- i don't know much about how things really work.. it's good to remember that; i suppose i just make music and think, i saved it in there, can i have it back please?

I suppose the desperation method would be to produce the MP3 files in the best possible quality. Those are practically identical to the originals. In what format did you try to save the Mac WAV files?

oh dear, i must confess technical ignorance.. i thought 'wav' was a format?! i did the 'export as WAV' command, and have everything on audacity set to the defaults (ie i haven't messed with them..)
thanks for enlightenment, h

Koz