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I use Audacity every now and then to mess with bits of music, today I made a little song with a bunch of samples and stuff.... I click export like I normally would, it exports fine Mp3, when I open it in a player (itunes, windows, vlc) there is just 3 minutes of nothing (the track is 3 minutes long) any help? thanks

Try importing the MP3 back into Audacity - does it play correctly in Audacity?

No it's just 3 minutes of high frequencies

If you create a new project, is the problem repeatable?
Which version of Windows are you using?
Which version of Audacity? (Look in "Help menu > About Audacity")

Sometimes it exports just blank high frequencies, and a few times it has exported 3/4 of the song... with the same setting as the first export. Is there certain export setting I should be using?

Windows 7 and Audacity ® 1.3.12-beta (Unicode)

and yes, I just recorded a short clip of my voice, exported it mp3 standard and it was just blank when I playing it in VLC

sehguh wrote:Sometimes it exports just blank high frequencies,

I'm not sure what you mean by "blank high frequencies". Could you make a short (less than 1 MB) sample of what you mean and post it to the forum (see "Upload Attachment" below the message composing box).

sehguh wrote: Windows 7 and Audacity ® 1.3.12-beta (Unicode)

I'll move this to the Audacity 1.3.x part of the forum.

the frequency when I export, just that... nothing else. Sometimes I get that, sometimes I get like 3/4 of my song with the other 1/4 the high frequency

Immediately before exporting, look in the bottom left corner of the Audacity window - what does it say for "Project Rate"?
On the left end of the audio track it will say something like "stereo 44100Hz 32-bit float". What does yours say?
In "Edit menu > Preferences > Quality" what settings do you have?

Mine says 44100 Hz and 32-bit float