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

[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.