Audacity Forum

I have recently purchased a turntable/cassette player to burn records etc to cd. I have Windows Media Player. How do I instruct Audacity 2.0 to export saved music to Windows Media Player so I can burn the CD.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... _a_cd.html

I have already downloaded all instructions etc. It still doesn't tell me how to actually export the file. I have gone into export, save as and saved to my music (windows media player) but the WAV file is not appearing. I need more advice before I send the whole unit back for a refund. The written Instructions are practically unintelligable, is there anyone on this list who speaks correct English who can talk me through the process step by step?

joanh wrote:I have already downloaded all instructions etc. It still doesn't tell me how to actually export the file. I have gone into export, save as and saved to my music (windows media player) but the WAV file is not appearing. I need more advice before I send the whole unit back for a refund. The written Instructions are practically unintelligable, is there anyone on this list who speaks correct English who can talk me through the process step by step?

Forget any Audacity "instructions" that came with the equipment you purchased. You export in Audacity by clicking File, then Export... . That opens the File Export Dialogue:
[1] http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fi ... ialog.html .

If you now read [2] http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... .html#burn does it solve your difficulty?

Other points:

* The WAV files will only appear as "song name" (not "song name.wav") in Windows Explorer. This is a Windows problem.
* Follow the instructions in the green box in link [2] to drag the WAV files from Windows Explorer into the Windows Media Player playlist, and then from the playlist to the burn list.

If you still have problems, click Help > About Windows Media Player and tell us which version number of Media Player you have.



Gale

Thank you Gale, will have another go. I have never had such problems with a programme in all my years of computering. It has literally got me tearing my hair out by the roots.

My song or album doesn't appear ANYWHERE in Media Player. When I go into Export, Save I have no idea where to save the file to, there are NO INSTRUCTIONS anywhere to tell me. Where in Explorer would I find the files I have been 'exporting' or 'saving'? I have done it so many times they must be somewhere in my computer. I am currently using version 4.1 of Media Player. Please help or the unit will be going back on Monday. Even if you need CD burning software in addition to Audacity is it askin too much to expect Audacity to acknowledge other software automatically?

In the File menu you will see an option for "Save". This option saves the Audacity Project. An Audacity Project is not an audio file (further information: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... jects.html )

In the File menu there is another option: "Export". You need to "export" the audio from the Audacity Project to make a normal audio file that other programs can understand.

On Windows one would normally export to "My Music" or to a sub-folder of My Music.

joanh wrote:My song or album doesn't appear ANYWHERE in Media Player. When I go into Export, Save I have no idea where to save the file to, there are NO INSTRUCTIONS anywhere to tell me.

People can export where they like if they have permissions to save there. Audacity is not just for burning WAV files in Windows Media Player.

joanh wrote: Where in Explorer would I find the files I have been 'exporting' or 'saving'?

If you just click File > Export and don't Save, the window will open to the last location you exported to, so you can tell that way.

Remember, you have to look for the name of the song in Explorer, not for WAV files.

Version 4.1 of Media Player does not sound correct. What version of Windows?

If I were you I would export to your Desktop, then open the Windows Media Player Library and drag the file with your mouse from the Desktop into the Library. Then you can see what you are doing. You will still have to make sure you burn as an audio CD and not a data or music CD, but get the WAV file visible in Media Player first .


Gale

Joanh, I am not being rude, but how much do you know about computers, it sounds like you do not know the basics aboput saving and retrieving files, if this is so then say so and i will try to explaine the routine to you. again i am not being rude, just asking a question so that the forum can help you better.

joanh wrote:...is there anyone on this list who speaks correct English who can talk me through the process step by step?

Joan,

With your Audacity projct open in front of you proceed as follows:
Select the track (or one of the tracks) by clicking anywhere in empty space in its Track Details panel at the left side of the track. The track background will go a darker shade of grey.
Now using the command bar at the top of the screen do File > Export Selection. This will open the Export File dialogue window.
Key in whatever file name you want the file to have (using only alphabetic and numeric characters, dash and underscore)
Set "Save as type" to "WAV (Microsoft) signed 16-bit PCM
Set "Save in" (at the top of the dialogue window) to be Desktop (so that you know where to look for the WAV file)
Click on Save
Now go to your Windows Desktop and visually find the WAV file there. If you have a standard set of file associations this file should then play in Windows Media Player if you double-click the file's icon.

When you are ready to try setting up for a CD burn, I suggest you go to your "My Music" folder and create a new sub-folder in it called "CD Burn items". You can then do the File > Export Selection again but direct the WAV file to be saved in this location rather than on the desktop. Once you have all the items that you want in this folder, you can then try and get Windows Media Player to accept these files as input to a CD burn. I cannot help you on this last stage as I don't use WMP to do my CD burns.