Audacity won't let me normalize

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to finish up my last podfic for the amplificathon contest -- which is over tonight -- and I'm having trouble with Audacity not letting me normalize the first part of the story, which is edited and is 66KB. It started acting a little strange at the end of editing last night, when it wouldn't let me cut a long stretch, so I had to cut, like 1 minute at a time. It started to let me normalize by doing the same thing - just one minute at time, which was going to take forever but I was willing to do it, but now it just keeps closing me down. Sigh. I only got 1 minute in.

I just now tried to normalize the second part -- about 50 minutes -- and it worked just fine. (Thank God).

Any ideas on how to fix this? I do not have any other programs running tonight, I did last night.

Posting this at Amplificathon and podfic tips.

Laurie

Comments

[cybel]

I'm on a Mac, so this is just a general comment.

I find that sometimes programs get wonky if they're left open for a long time. It may help to close the program then reopen it. If this doesn't do it, you could try shutting down then restarting your computer.

The only other general things I could suggest would be to delete preferences (or whatever the PC equivalent is and/or reinstall Audacity if it continues to act up. Oh, and, of course, make sure you have the most up to date version of the software.

Probably no help, but there you go.

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

I've had to shut down the program a number of times - it's shutting it down for me, but I restarted the computer and I've still got the same problem. I did three other podfics yesterday and didn't have the problems I'm having with this one, plus I finished editing part two and normalilzed it fine tonight. So, I don't think its a problem with the software - just something wrong with this track. I even copied the track into a new project but I still had the same problem with it.
Thanks for giving it a try. One thing that happened that might explain the glitch is that the power went out while I was working on it -- maybe that fucked it up. I also had mutiple tracks because I had to re-record some stuff when the power went out.

Laurie

[cybel]

Ah, I can see where that might be the problem. Hope it all works out.