Novice questions

[tsuber]

Two basic questions have arisen after 2 days of tinkering (more may follow):
- How do I expand the view of the waveform so that it is not so minimized that i can't discern the silences? Using the magnifying glass on the left hand ruler will only expand so much. Is that the limit? To facilitate this i have had to set the view to ""fit vertically".
- Recent topic clarified for me which file to open (*.aup) when working on an file not yet converted to wav or mp3. But when i open the aup file, i can't find the track i was working on. It just is a blank format ready to record another track.

Thanks for the help. Excited about the prospect of converting a lot of old vinyl.
TSuber

[waxcylinder]

- How do I expand the view of the waveform so that it is not so minimized that i can't discern the silences? Using the magnifying glass on the left hand ruler will only expand so much. Is that the limit? To facilitate this i have had to set the view to ""fit vertically".

TSuber

You need to zoom in - either use the magniying glass icon in the zoom toolbar (the one with the + sign) or use View>Zoom IN (or the CTRL+1 shortcut). Zooming in/out is a very useful facility in Audacity.

WC

[waxcylinder]

- Recent topic clarified for me which file to open (*.aup) when working on an file not yet converted to wav or mp3. But when i open the aup file, i can't find the track i was working on. It just is a blank format ready to record another track.
TSuber

It will be where you told Audacity to file it and you should open it from there. When you Save or Save As a project Audacity requests a filestore directory location.

Try searching on your hard disk for *.aup files.

Or try File>Open>Recent Files inAudacity - it should track the last 9 or so projects that you have had open

BTW: if you are going to be converting a lot of vinyl, it will help you a lot if you are disciplined with your filing structure. Design how you are going to structure your music file archive before you start - unless that is you are just planning to burn it all out to CDs as you go.

And to lift a quote from Koz on another thread: "..... you need to be really careful how you save your music work. Always export a finished show as a WAV file and keep that as the archive. Do not try to save a Project. Projects are not single files. They are insanely complicated, multi-file clouds and if you do anything wrong or leave out any of the pieces, your project will crash."

Koz

WC