newbie seeks recommendations

[kozikowski]

I'm crystal clear about the condition, but I'm completely foggy how you got there.

You understand the relationship now. What was the goal? Read a section and then save a project, repeat as needed? That doesn't automatically damage or lose the AUP file.

Were you continually saving changes to one chapter project? Using Append Record to make the show longer and longer as you go? That's actually not an awful way to do it, but short of a crash, that should not have produced a damaged Project.

???

Koz

[Lorain]

I've been narrating and editing one-half of a chapter, saving it, then the next day doing the same thing with the second half of the chapter, then copying and pasting that to the first half of the chapter, in order to make one whole chapter. The file I lost was the second half of Chapter Five; I'd recorded and edited it, saved it (to Aud), closed the file, but when I came back to copy/paste it to the first part of Chapter Five, it had vanished. It's still listed in my computer, but when I click on it, it says Audacity can't find it. From now on I will just save everything to WAV.

[kozikowski]

From now on I will just save everything to WAV.

Export to WAV. Audacity only Saves Projects.

There is a model for what you have. Audacity writes the AUP file last when you save a Project. If you closed the machine before it got done, you could have an AUP file full of zeros or trash characters.

If you know where it is can you post it here?

Koz

[Lorain]

Everywhere I find the file, (e.g. on my C drive, on Audacity, in my folder) when I click on it, it just says Audacity can't find the file (after I'd closed the file, I'd renamed it; I guess that wiped it).

At least it's only half a chapter, I would have really torn my hair out if it had been an entire one!

[kozikowski]

Open it in a text editor. File > Open With. There's already two examples of what we expect it to look like.

Koz

[Lorain]

I've noticed every once in a while there is a "click" sound on my mastered recording. I can't figure out anything I'm doing that's causing it. Is there any way to filter/remove these out from an already mastered recording?

[kozikowski]

Post a longer clip. I need to get a better idea of your rhythm and I need to hear it when you stop talking.

One blue wave (mono) will fit up to 20 seconds.

Koz

[Lorain]

I hope it's not something I'm doing but I really don't think it is. Mostly I would just like a filter to remove it (like your magical Notch Filter air conditioner remover!).

[kozikowski]

This is not good news. I hear them clearly, but they have no unique personality by which to recognize them. Pops from a vinyl recording are pretty easy because they're higher than the surrounding blue waves, usually alone and always of very short duration. We can design a program to recognize that. These pops, as near as I can tell, have the personality of normal sound. Audacity can't split apart a mixed performance into individual instruments, voices and sounds.

As near as I can tell, nobody knows exactly what's causing them either because they don't have a digital personality. We can tell, for example, if there's a "hole" in the blue waves out of character with the rest of the show. Nope. Don't have that, either.

When the Mac people get this, the solution is sometimes to change the Buffer value. Preferences > Devices > Latency > Buffer.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq ... html#skips
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq ... ac_crackle

I'm going to call for help.

Koz

[kozikowski]

Can you tell if the clicks were in the original raw reading?

Sometimes we tell people to restart their machines and don't let anything else start. This for the people who leave Skype or Instagram running in the background. Skype likes to take over the sound services when it's running—or napping.

Can you make it worse?

Are you reading from the screen? I'm not fond of that idea. That guarantees the computer must be trying to do two different things at the same time.

This has come up several times before and none of the usual pop and click removers have helped.

Koz