Audacity Forum

Will try to respond to your last 3 replies in this post.

I tried opening .aiff files on Audacity today using Control Click-->Open With-->Audacity and got the same crash message. I tried opening through the Import Audio option with the same result. Right now I can't get it to open anything. I edited the files (amplify only) after I recorded them from the casettes and before I saved them as .aiff files; all I have done since then is to open them and save as m4a files.

I checked several .aiff files in QuickTime and their format is Linear PCM, 16 bit big endian signed integer 2 channels, 44100 Hz.

Here is a sample file path (they all follow the same format): Audicity folder-->AIFF Files folder-->Album Name-->Song Title.aiff. I can't think of anything that would be different about the source files. They were all recorded on Audacity from a Sony boombox over a two-day period. I amplified each file, marked the tracks for each side of the casette, entered the data in the Metadata Editor, and saved each file as a song in the album folder. The first 20-30 went fine and then the program started crashing on songs that were in the same folder as ones that I had just done successfully. The crashes have gotten progressively worse. Closing Audacity after exporting each file hasn't helped. Neither has restarting my computer.

In order to finish the files, I went online and downloaded the free version of WavePad and used it to convert the rest of the files to m4a's. It worked but I had to manually enter most of the data after I put them in iTunes. Sorry--I didn't read the message about converting them in iTunes until after I had used WavePad.

I am attaching the crash report in hopes that it will be helpful in figuring out the problem and thank each of you for your help.

Thanks for your response.

No Crash Report was attached; it would still be helpful - what version of OS X are you using?

Are these are all then three or four minute AIFF files originally exported by Audacity? Do you know which version of Audacity? Please upload one of these files to a free file transfer service such as:
http://www.yousendit.com/
http://www.sendspace.com/

and give us the web address where we can download it. It is possible the metadata you added is causing the problem so we should rule that out.

Have you ever used Audacity 1.2? If so, deleting ~/Library/Application Support/audacity won't reset the Preferences because Audacity will still read the 1.2 Preferences. Please exit Audacity, rename the attached "audacity.txt" file to "audacity .cfg" (without quotes) then paste it into ~/Library/Application Support/audacity. Overwrite the old file if asked.

Now drag in one of these AIFF files from Finder. You have the choice to read it directly from its current location or copy it in. Were you copying in before or reading directly? Try the other method. If you don't know, try both.

Sorry for the inconvenience.


Gale