HELP WITH c.au

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hi I us Mac 10.4.11 I have saved my conversations but I can’t open them each time it appears Mac OS error -208 and I do not understand why they are save with quick time,in the name of each file it appears .au at the apple store the mac technitian said that I have to change them into MP3 but they said I should contact you for help better advise really they did not know really what to do. Thanks

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Audacity will not save a sound file. If you do want a sound file that will play in other programs and computers, you have to export one.

File > Export > Format WAV, Microsoft 16-bit. Then pick a name for your file.

That will give you a WAV sound file which will play on other computers. You can make an MP3 music file, too, but you have to download and install additional software to do that.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#maclame

Koz

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THANKS FOR YOU INFO BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THE FILES THAT I HAVE SAVED IN MY COMPUTER AND ARE IN c.au I WILL ABLE TO RETRIEVE THEM AND CHANGE THEM IN THE MP3 SYSTEM WITH THE STEPS YOU MENTIONED ANDIF SO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECUPERATE THEM.
THANKS

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Please don’t type in UPPER CASE - it’s hard to read.

First, make sure you have installed the LAME MP3 export library using the link Koz gave:
Audacity Manual .

You have to leave the AU files alone or you will destroy your work. The AU files are only short fragments of your complete work - internal files that only Audacity can use.

If you have this work open now in Audacity, use File > Export and choose “MP3 Files”. See this page for how to make the correct choices for MP3:
Audacity Manual .

If you had saved your work as an Audacity project (AUP) but closed it, open the AUP file, not the AU files. Look in File > Open Recent in the Audacity menus and you should see your AUP file. Click on it to open it. Then export as MP3.



Gale

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hi gale,

i donwloades what koz said but i can not use it with my mac 10.4.11 version is their another option?

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1 Audacity > Quit Audacity.
2 Download http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/Lame_Library_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX.zip .
3 Extract “libmp3lame.dylib” from the zip and put that dylib file in the folder where the Audacity application is.
4 Launch Audacity.
5 If Audacity says it cannot find the MP3 encoding library, click Audacity > Preferences then choose “Libraries” on the left.
6 Click “Locate…” under “MP3 Export Library”, then “Browse…” in the “Locate Lame” dialog.
7 Navigate to the folder where you put “libmp3lame.dylib”, select “libmp3lame.dylib”, click “Open” then “OK” and “OK”.


Gale