Exporting error

[jkosmatka]

So I'm running on the latest update of Mac OSX.

Oftentimes when I'm exporting, a lot of the sound will instead by silence, and sometimes effects will be repeated and a few other difficult to explain oddities.

For example:
I just saved a file where I added a fade in to the beginning, and when I exported it as a wav, it kept repeating the section that was faded in, with another fade added on top of the previous for as long as the file was supposed to be.

Another one I saved with a fade at the beginning and there was simply silence in place of what was supposed to have faded in. The rest was fine.

Another one, I wanted to lengthen a crowd sound effect and so I simply added a second stereo track, copypasted the original towards the end of the first, and exported them together to double the length. When I opened up the subsequent wav, all was silence.

I've found workarounds (using the Envelope in lieu of the Fade In command fir the first example, I'm not even sure how I get it to work for the third example). But I've also found the same thing when I executed the same commands to the same original file in Audacity on Windows Vista.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I'm baffled.

james

[kozikowski]

What's the original file? Were you performing in front of a microphone? Was this a live capture?

Launch the music file in QuickTime Player (before you edit it) and Apple-I to get the INFO panel. What does it say? Audacity, particularly the early 1.2 only recognizes a few simple formats. If you open up a super, modern, advanced, compressed audio file, Audacity will seem to be editing it, but will produce trash instead.

Most iTunes music will not open up in Audacity.

Koz