Help exporting file to itunes

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Schmidt1989
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Help exporting file to itunes

Post by Schmidt1989 » Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:03 am

So I have nearly a 7 hour audio file. It works fine in audacity, and I want to put it into itunes. I've exported files before and theyve worked fine. However, I've never done a file this large. I tried exporting it as both mp3 and wav. I always remember .wav worked perfectly, but now, it only exports about 6 minutes of the file. And it's not even the beginning 6 minutes. It's as though it randomly chose 6 minutes from the middle of the file to export.

How can I export the entire file?

Thanks for reading!
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billw58
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Re: Help exporting file to itunes

Post by billw58 » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:15 am

Schmidt1989 wrote:How can I export the entire file?
You can't. A 7-hour WAV would be over 2 GB, which is the size limit. Break it into smaller chunks.

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kozikowski
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Re: Help exporting file to itunes

Post by kozikowski » Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:10 am

There's no shortage of people trying to make Audacity into a surveillance program. It's not.

Can you save the show as an Audacity Project? If you can, you could download and install Audacity 1.3.12 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Audacity 1.3 will open Audacity 1.2 Projects.

Install FFMpeg from the same place. FFMpeg allows exporting as AAC. You might get away with that. It's a more modern format and it may support very large shows. Apple iTunes knows what AAC is.

Koz
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