MP3 FILE wont play in audacity

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stardust2003
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MP3 FILE wont play in audacity

Post by stardust2003 » Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:18 pm

hi
I just recorded a 2 min mp3 file by playing a song on U tube and recording it
live with audacity

I saved the mp3 file
Later I opened it with audacity and the whole window seems frozen
it wont play nothing seems to work..... the cursor will appear I can move it
around but no chance of playing the short 2 min file

stardust2003
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Re: MP3 FILE wont play in audacity

Post by stardust2003 » Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:23 pm

Just tried a different approach.... instead of clicking on the file and open with audacity

I opened up audacity and then hit file top left then open
and I opened the mp3 this way ...

Bingo the file played OK !

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Re: MP3 FILE wont play in audacity

Post by kozikowski » Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:24 pm

Does the song play in Windows Media?

Koz

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