Where'd the volume go?

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hellosailor
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Where'd the volume go?

Post by hellosailor » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:32 pm

I accidentally recorded boths sides of a cassette transfer into one Audacity file and I figured, no problem, just copy the second half of the file, open a new file, paste in it, save each separately, Bob's my uncle.

Yeahbut.

Even though the waveform in the copied-and-pasted-elsewhere file LOOKED perfectly normal, I could barely hear the music. It was as if someone put the sound down to "1". But I checked every setting, and it wasn't any of that.

Is this because I had two Audacity 2.0 windows, two separate files, open at once? Or am I just lucky hitting bugs today?

I tried working the other way afterward, i.e. deleting half of the large file, saving what was left, and of course that way the file split without any problem.
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Re: Where'd the volume go?

Post by PGA » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:42 pm

I cannot reproduce that problem using Audcaity 2.0.1 on Windows 7.
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Re: Where'd the volume go?

Post by hellosailor » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:49 pm

Obviously, you need to downgrade to 2.0.0 and Vista, and then spend more time trying to reproduce the problem.<G>

Ihaven't had KoolAide all day, I'm sure it wasn't a drug flash.
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