recorded sound (.au) playback dies off

[psik]

I don't know how to explain this but my sound files that I have recorded dies off after every interval when I try to play it back.
So it plays for 3 seconds and it dies. but if I rewind it back to the part that it had DIED on, then it plays back again from that part for 3 seconds, then dies off again....the format is .au? Please not that when it dies Audacity is still showing the activity in the L & R speakers but no sounds comes out...I tried playing the sound in other programs but either they do the same thing or do worst than audacity...
Anyone know what could be wrong? ANd just to let you know these are a bunch of .au files which I joined together after Audacity crashed with some program I dont have anymore and dont remember what it was right now

[psik]

In otherwords, you know when I zoom in in Audacity how there is the curved graph of the sound and then the vertical line so like this:
|***|***||***|***||***|***||***|***|
So the stars here represent the sound, I am not sure what the vertical line represents but as soon as soon as it gets to a vertical line or the bar it dies off totally...unless i stop and play from inside the vertical lines it wont work,
so basically when i press play it plays goes through those starts (the sound..) and then as soon as it gets to the next bar (|) it dies off ...

[psik]

could this have something to do with clipping or something?

[kozikowski]

AU files aren't sound files. They're clips and segments part of a much larger Audacity Project. Put all those AU files back in the _data folder where you found them and open up the AUP (project manager) file. If you got everything back where it's supposed to be, the whole show should be there. Export As WAV or Export As MP3 to get an actual single sound file.

If you already moved things around too much or deleted some files, you have no show.

Koz

[kozikowski]

<<<these are a bunch of .au files which I joined together after Audacity crashed>>>

Sorry. I didn't read carefully enough.

Nobody has ever been able to recover a crashed Audacity show. If you manage to put everything back together again, you will be number one.

Koz

[psik]

All the files/clips I have are continuations of each other though...so file1.au file2.au file3.au ... file300.au
I just need a proper way to join these files..

[kozikowski]

<<<I just need a proper way to join these files..>>>

I believe you. When you get a working pipeline, please post back. There are a lot of people who want to know how you did it.

Koz

[psik]

thank you for the replies,

I will post if I find any solutions...

[kozikowski]

I can tell you what your first problem is going to be. Because Audacity doesn't place leading zeros, the files aren't in the order you think they are. The next file after 0001 is 0002. The next file after 1 is 10.

Koz

[jan.kolar]

<<<these are a bunch of .au files which I joined together after Audacity crashed>>>

Sorry. I didn't read carefully enough.

Nobody has ever been able to recover a crashed Audacity show. If you manage to put everything back together again, you will be number one.

Koz

I missed that info to, like Koz did.
I do not read this thread carefully (sorry), but I got confused.
Good news: I did recover after a crash (was after simple recording, though...).
Go for the two solution on http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5643
(on of the to links and one of the posts).