transfering aup,s to itunes

[desmo11225]

Thank You Again waxcylinder for your prompt reply.
Since!!!! I have had a good look round and found several forums that confirm what you told me but they were also much more negative than you.
What I did see was that the forums were quite old i.e. year 2006, do you know of a more up to date forum and surely there must be some more up to date info around by now.
I also noted that this was a very sort after project, someone has had a good go at it surely
Thank You Once Again waxcylinder
Take Care
desmo

[waxcylinder]

Desmo, sorry no forums that I can point you to for this - it all just worked sweetly for me: scan, upload - a bit of photoshopping occasionally - file and backup. I encounterted no real problems so had no need of help from forums.

When you say they were more negative - what were they complaining about?

WC

[desmo11225]

As you know I have converted quite a lot of vinyl records to C.D now and feel I am quite skillful but every now and then I have some tracks that are lost i.e a 26 track double album I did this week I lost 3 of them.
They either only record e few seconds or say they are not av. presumably meaning not average..
I have'nt bothered in the past but 2 of the 3 tracks I lost this week were really good ones.
Once again I am asking for help
Sorry WC I had'nt picked up your reply re. putting old photographs on C.D. they were negative in as much as there was a major problem with specks of dust on negatives and slides and finding the right scanners, all in all putting you off having a go.
I wont do that though, I'll definitely be working on that project, I have a friend who wants to do it too, so we'll get ourselves sorted, thanks for your encouragement anyway
Take Care
desmo11225

[waxcylinder]

Sorry WC I had'nt picked up your reply re. putting old photographs on C.D. they were negative in as much as there was a major problem with specks of dust on negatives and slides and finding the right scanners, all in all putting you off having a go. I wont do that though, I'll definitely be working on that project, I have a friend who wants to do it too, so we'll get ourselves sorted, thanks for your encouragement anyway
Take Care
desmo11225

So Desmo, it's on a parallel with Audio capture/resporation where we get rid of clicks/pops/noise - I have effected some resonable repairs on many of my old precious photos quite eaily with Photoshop - well worth the effort.

WC

[desmo11225]

I have been successful transferring a lot of my L.P.s to C.D. and feel I am quite skillful but every now and then I lose some of the tracks i.e an L.P I did this week with 26 tracks I lost 3, it is either only a few seconds long or it says Not AV. presumably meaning Not Average.
Previously I have'nt bothered about it but this time I lost 2 really good tracks.
Is there a solution please
Thank You Again
desmo11225

[desmo11225]

Hello waxcylinder
It's a long time since I contacted you, April in fact, I've converted lots of records to C.Ds now, all very good.
Coming up though is in the lower left hand corner of Audacity is : Time left for recording 30 minutes :
This started off about 40 Hours.
Question is What happens next .
Hope I'm not in too much trouble.
Thank You once again for all Your help in the past.
All the Best
desmo 11225

[waxcylinder]

Hello again Desmo,

this is a potentially serious problem for you that requires farly URGENT attention.

It means that you are running out of hard drive space on your disc and that means soon that evrything on your computer may stop working for lack of space. So it is important that you feee up some space on the disc and if you are on Windows then also defrag the disc.

When you work on Audacity projects Audacity creates a .aup file, a folder and in the folder loads of little .au files. These are really for production purposes only and once you have exported your project to WAV and backed up the WAV files and probably burned a CD of the project - then you should be in a position to safely delete all the .au amd .aup files for the project.

WAV files themselves take up a lot of space - so what I do is to have two external USB discs (currently 250 GB each - such discs are reasonably cheap these days). These discs contain duplicate copies of all the WAV files I have made with Audacity - my son in London also gets an occasional copy on his disc (he thinks he is borrowing my music - but really he is my off-site backup) . On My PC what remains is copies of the WAV files compressed to AAC format in my iTunes library - gives a space saving of about 8 to 1 or 10 to 1. I do also burn CDRs of all the LPs I convert as an additional backup.

If I was being extremely thorough I would save not only the edited post-production WAV files, but also the raw WAV files just as recorded off the LP so that I could go back later and re-edit from the original source. Bt I figure that if I want to do that I always still have the LP and I can always re-record.

Kind regards,
WC

[steve]

Time left for recording 30 minutes :
...Question is What happens next .

If you are on Windows, the next thing is that Windows crashes horribly. Make more space before attempting to record. Windows should always have a minimum of 10% free disk space at all times.

On a Linux machine, the next thing is that you get a warning that you are out of disk space, and you may not be able to save your project until you have made enough space. Also, Audacity may lock up and you may loose your current project.

(Just reiterating WC's answer really)

It means that you are running out of hard drive space on your disc and that means soon that evrything on your computer may stop working for lack of space. So it is important that you feee up some space on the disc and if you are on Windows then also defrag the disc.