Re: [Finale] TAN: Audacity
On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On 5-Feb-07, at 4:56 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: OK, I downloaded Audacity and read the manual. But when I go to open one of my MP3 files, the program tells me both that it can't read the file type *and* that the file doesn't exist! Help? Did you also download the optional LAME Mp3 encoder, from the same page as the Mac download? I think this is required for MP3 loading as well as exporting, and they were not permitted to simply build it in because of copyright issues or some such. The sourceforge Audacity site very clearly says that the LAME encoder is to enable the *export* of MP3 files. I wish to *import* them, and there is no mention of that in any of the LAME documentation. There might also be an issue if your mp3 files don't have extensions. But, alas, they do. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: Audacity
The file should be AIFF. But... Load Audacity and look under "Project' It has the' upload file type' choices. Jerry Gerald Berg On 5-Feb-07, at 5:21 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On 5-Feb-07, at 4:56 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: OK, I downloaded Audacity and read the manual. But when I go to open one of my MP3 files, the program tells me both that it can't read the file type *and* that the file doesn't exist! Help? Did you also download the optional LAME Mp3 encoder, from the same page as the Mac download? I think this is required for MP3 loading as well as exporting, and they were not permitted to simply build it in because of copyright issues or some such. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac There might also be an issue if your mp3 files don't have extensions. I know Macs are not supposed to care, but sometimes the file info gets corrupted and the Mac doesn't know what the association is any more unless you have the proper extension. I use extensions all the time now. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: Audacity
On 5-Feb-07, at 4:56 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: OK, I downloaded Audacity and read the manual. But when I go to open one of my MP3 files, the program tells me both that it can't read the file type *and* that the file doesn't exist! Help? Did you also download the optional LAME Mp3 encoder, from the same page as the Mac download? I think this is required for MP3 loading as well as exporting, and they were not permitted to simply build it in because of copyright issues or some such. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac There might also be an issue if your mp3 files don't have extensions. I know Macs are not supposed to care, but sometimes the file info gets corrupted and the Mac doesn't know what the association is any more unless you have the proper extension. I use extensions all the time now. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: Audacity
On 5 Feb 2007 at 16:56, Andrew Stiller wrote: > OK, I downloaded Audacity and read the manual. But when I go to open > one of my MP3 files, the program tells me both that it can't read the > file type *and* that the file doesn't exist! I've never had any difficulty on Windows opening MP3 files. Maybe because it's an Open Source piece of software it has a Linux/Windows bias, where file extensions indicate type and the file you're trying to open doesn't have the MP3 file extension? -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
