nacoran
3451 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:04 AM
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I'm trying to edit a wave file down to size, but every time I try to open or import it Audacity crashes! It's a wave file, about 45 megs, but my computer should be able to handle that. Any ideas? (It's a recording of 3 songs that I want to separate into the separate songs.)
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tf10music
66 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:14 AM
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If you don't care too much about quality, convert the file to mp3, and then import it.
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nacoran
3452 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:26 AM
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Tf, what do you do if you only know how to convert a song to mp3 using Audacity?
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MrVerylongusername
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Dec 22, 2010
10:28 AM
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use itunes to convert to mp3
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tf10music
67 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:32 AM
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There are also a bunch of free programs on the internet that will do it for you. I use some program called ACE converter. It has worked out quite well.
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tookatooka
1962 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:57 AM
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Have you got WaveStudio? If so, import, split and export as three seperate wav files?
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nacoran
3453 posts
Dec 22, 2010
11:15 AM
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Thanks guys. I used one of the online converters. Thanks for the idea. (I don't have iTunes.)
Edit- Tooka, I probably have it somewhere. Funny, the whole purpose was to turn it into three parts! (It was a recording of three songs from an open mic.)
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Last Edited by on Dec 22, 2010 11:16 AM
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AirMojo
69 posts
Dec 22, 2010
12:25 PM
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Nate... what version of Audacity are you using ?
I'm using Verison 1.3.9 Beta, and it opened a WAV file okay (it was 60,121KB).
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arzajac
413 posts
Dec 22, 2010
12:40 PM
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Vlc is a great little media player that can play almost anything without relying on external plugins or codecs. It's handy because it can also convert files from one format to another.
It's Free-Libre Open Source software and is a very quick download.
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nacoran
3461 posts
Dec 22, 2010
5:14 PM
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Airmojo, 1.2.6, looks like it's time for me to upgrade. Arzajac, I'll look into that.
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garry
16 posts
Dec 23, 2010
6:51 PM
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seems odd that such a little file would cause problems. i routinely open multiple gigabyte wav files (1GB wav is about 1.5 hours) on my (linux) machine.
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nacoran
3474 posts
Dec 23, 2010
7:05 PM
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I've always had problems with Audacity crashing in Windows. I had problems with my old machine with XP. It's been better with more RAM and Windows 7.
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Jim Rumbaugh
345 posts
Dec 23, 2010
7:50 PM
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I have had less crashing problems with the 1.2 version. I have a 5 year old computer, XP with one gig ram. I say Audacity is fine.
It does seem more prone to crashing when I have 6 to 8 tracks I'm trying to tweak at one time.
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Joe_L
934 posts
Dec 23, 2010
8:29 PM
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Nate - It sounds like your version of Audacity may be messed up. I've been able to import wav files much larger than that into Audacity.
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