True enough, when I record directly through Audacity this never happens.
However, the recordings I need to import into Audacity either come from
Replay AV or from other sources where I can download a recording.
Thank you for getting back.
Don
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 2:49 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: odd problem
I don't know what program you are using to record the audio with. Are you
recording with Audacity? If so, you might avoid the error, I would think,
and you would not lose sound quality if you save the file as a wave file or
as an Audacity project when finished recording. If you save an MP3 file,
import it into Audacity, edit it, then save it again, you are reencoding an
already existing MP3 file when you save it after editing. You are losing
sound quality by reencoding it. Also, the time you take importing the MP3
file before editing it, is wasted time. A wavbe or Audacity project file
doesn't take any, or hardly any time to import when you are ready to edit
it. then you only spend time exporting it once as an MP3 file.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: don wardlow <mailto:wardlows97@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:09 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] odd problem
Hi all.
This will take a while, so get comfortable.
My computer has Windows 7, the latest JAWS and the latest Audacity (though I
don't know its number.)
The odd thing it does doesn't happen every day, thank heaven but when it
does it's a pain in the neck.
I record radio broadcasts and later, when time permits I cut out the
commercials to only hear the parts I want.
I import the MP3 file into Audacity. I start to fast forward through to
locate the first commercial. When I find it, I hit P for pause and then try
to hit the left bracket key.
At this point I get an error message that says
"To use this feature you must enable the (Something) tool bar."
Sorry, I didn't copy down the message last time I heard it.
Anyhow I don't know how to enable any_ tool bar including whatever one I am
being prompted to enable. So far, my only recourse is to get rid of the AUP
file, restart the computer, then import the original MP3 into Audacity.
This takes time.
If anybody else has a problem like this one and knows an easier answer,
please let me know.
Thanks as always.
Don
