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Tracey Nicholson from Jack Donahue Public School sent us some questions her students had about Audacity. Jane and I have encountered these obstacles in the past and thought it would be worthwhile sharing:
Hi Nathan:
We are having trouble with exporting our “Audacity” file into a mp3 file.
We are also having trouble with coping and pasting Audacity files.
If you can help us that would be great.
I’ll take a crack at answering these questions.
“We are having trouble with exporting our ‘Audacity’ file into a mp3 file.”
When you export an Audacity file to MP3 you go to File/Export as MP3. The purpose of doing this is to create a much smaller sized audio file that can easily be played on everyone’s computer over the Internet.
You will run into trouble if a file called the LAME MP3 encoder was not installed along with Audacity. For copyright reasons this file has to be installed separately. It’s simple enough to do if you are using a home computer or have permission to install software on your school computer. Just follow this link and follow the instructions there.
“We are also having trouble with coping and pasting Audacity files.”
As far as copying and pasting files, I’m assuming the problem happens after you’ve saved your Audacity project and you decide to copy the Audacity files onto a flash drive or move it to another folder. When you go to open up the copied Audacity file much of the sound is missing. Aaaargh!
There’s a simple way to avoid this and, once you’ve done it, it stays in the software’s settings, meaning you probably won’t have to do it again.
Here’s what you do:
1. In the menu select Edit the Preferences.
2. Click on “File Formats”
3. Select “Make a copy of the file before editing (Safer)”
This will make sure all of the bits and pieces of audio you need are included the folder you copy over.
I hope this is useful.
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