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audacity - a tragedy

20th July 2005, 12:11 am

I guess you get what you pay for… I was literally 10 minutes away from a final mix down of “some sounds we like episode 2″ when audacity crashed, and took my hard work with it, regardless of the fact that I’d been meticulously saving along the way. I’d read up on the “audacity crash recovery” pages, but they all seem to treat the tools for single track projects.. whereas mine was many tracks. I guess I was just using the wrong tool for the job.

We (jono and I) had used logic express to edit the first show, and that was like using dynamite to floss with. O - ver - kill. Now I can see, this isn’t going to be easy. What I should have done is just edit the two mono mic tracks in audacity, mix down as separate wav files, then import to garageband or logic express for the addition of the music clips and intro, etc..

note to self: there is no tool that is easy to use and stable and fully featured… stick to the tools that do what you want.

if this hadn’t happened to me so many times in the past, I’d be really pissed… maybe I’m just getting older or something because I’m just really annoyed. 6 hours of editing down the drain. Maybe I’ll be pissed tomorrow after I’ve slept more.

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One Comment

  1. Rhythmist:

    Command-S every 5 minutes, homie!!!

    21 July 2005, 10:46 am

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