problem recording from cassettes

[snjjury]

I successfully record the music,save it,edit and label it.
when I export it into media player,there are no lengths attached and the sizes for each track are bizarre; anywhere from 181kb to 25mb for a 2-3 minute song. WHAT AM i DOING WRONG??????
Jack in Canada

[waxcylinder]

Start off with a good read of this set of tutorials from the 1.3 manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... iscs_to_CD

WC

[snjjury]

w.c.
the problem is that I don't know if it is possible to record the length and size of each track segment and transfer it to the media player library.
thanks for your help
Jack

[waxcylinder]

I am not clear what you are asking here.

The length of any track/"song" exported from Audacity are dictated by the output filetype you choose e.g. uncompressed WAV (large) or compressed MP3 (smaller) and the length (in time dration) if the track/"song"

Most media players should have no problem handling audio file sizes from a short as a few seconds up to a couple of hours or more. My iTunes libraries have several audio files of well over an hour - "your mileage may vary".

WC

[waxcylinder]

I've just had a re-read of your initial post. If all you are doing is "Saving" then you won't have any usable Audio files. Save makes and Audacity project in its own internal format. To get usable audio files you will need to use one of the Export functions to make uncompressed WAV files, compressed MP3s, or other required format.

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When you save an Audacity project as <project_name> it creates a number of things

1. a top level master project file called <project_name>.aup
2. a folder at the same filing level called <project_name>_data
3. and within the folder a sub-folder structure with lots of little .au files - segments of the recording (mainly audio clips - but a couple of them are graphics files)

When you re-open a project with Audacity you should always open the <project_name>.aup top level file. This tells Audacity how to thread together all the little .au files. It is deliberately designed this way so that Audacity doesn't have to open and work with a single humungously large file, which would hamper performance. You should not be attempting to open or manipulate any individual .au files.

When you have finished editing your Audacity project you can Export it from Audacity as a WAV file or MP3 file depending what sound quality you wish to achieve. WAV files are around ten times larger than the equivalent MP3 files but are uncompressed and thus the audio quality is higher.

WC