I am using Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.2
I imported audio from two different MP3s to Audacity. I combined parts of the two MP3s (songs I bought) in order to create a new audio piece that I now want to export from Audacity. My Audacity file is 5.28 minutes long. When I export my audacity file to MP3, it exports the audio from one of the original MP3s from which I created the Audacity file and is only 2.59 minutes long (the length of that original MP3s). I didn't have this problem with an older Window version or older version of Audacity. I am using this audio for a musical freestyle equestrian competition and need to make a CD soon. I hope this all makes sense. I hope you can help.
Cannot export modified audio to MP3
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Re: Cannot export modified audio to MP3
For making a CD, you should export as "16-bit WAV".freundl wrote:I am using this audio for a musical freestyle equestrian competition and need to make a CD soon
Exporting as MP3 will needlessly reduce the sound quality, whereas 16-bit WAV format (which is basically the same format as CDs use) won't.
Does it work if you export as WAV?
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Re: Cannot export modified audio to MP3
No, still doesn't work. I'm guessing that there is some lock on the original audio MP3 songs that I downloaded. Any way around that? thanks
Re: Cannot export modified audio to MP3
Ok, I figured it out. I had to copy my audicity file and paste into a new audicity file and then I exported as WAV and now I can make the CD! .