Question I'm Back With A Question About Audacity

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Wolkie 72

Wolkie 72

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First, my apologies for bothering you all once again, but you guys were such a big help to me last time, I wanted to skip the audacity forums (which I cannot join because they won't send the confirmation numbers) and come straight to where the Knowledge is.

I now have everything loaded on my computer and used aqudacity to do it. So now all my cassettes are listed under my audacity file and I would like to move everything to media player legacy.

To save you all some time, I know to go to mp and go to Organize > Manage Libraries>Music. But here is where I need your help again.

My question, do I just put "audacity" in that field, and move ALL my audacity files at once, or must I move file by file?

How would you do this? If I have to move file by file, that would take a while, but that is how all my cassettes are listed under audacity: By title, and then there's just a whole list of them.

As usual, being 74 and low on cognitive functions I need "hand-holding", so please if you can, pretend I'm totally ignorant and it will help me a great deal.

Also as usual, I appreciate all of my "Tom's Gurus".

And there is now an Audacity 3.5 with some improvements whioch may interest some of you.

Thanks

Bill
 
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35below0
Wolkie 72 said:
I just played a Dylan tape and it played it off W11 media player and not the legacy one. ...
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Right click on a file (.mp3 or other), select Open with, then Choose another app.

Menu shows up where you can select an application to open the file. Just once, or permanently.

If you can't see the app you like on the list, click Choose an app on your PC and a file explorer window will open up. You can use this to add the exact program you want to open the file(s). It will then be added to the list.
You might need to do a file search first, in case you don't remember where you installed the program.
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For the moment.....forget Audacity and Media Player.

Using Windows traditional File Explorer, tell us where these files are.

On the C partition somewhere? Where exactly?

C:\Users\ your user name\somewhere? Or?

How are they subdivided? Or are they all in a single directory?

Maybe you can provide a example of a path down to each cassette or song?

Like: C:\Users\your user name\Music\Country\Johnny Cash\cassette33sideA.mp3

or

C:\Users\your user name\Music\Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues.wav

Or however you do it.

Secondly: Imagine one cassette as it is on your PC.

Is there just ONE file for each cassette? Or do you have it broken down into individual songs? Or 1 file for each side of the cassette?

Lastly: are these music files in mp3 form? Or FLAC? Or WAV? Or?
 
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Lafong said:
For the moment.....forget Audacity and Media Player.

Using Windows traditional File Explorer, tell us where these files are.

On the C partition somewhere? Where exactly?

C:\Users\ your user name\somewhere? Or?

How are they subdivided? Or are they all in a single directory?

Maybe you can provide a example of a path down to each cassette or song?

Like: C:\Users\your user name\Music\Country\Johnny Cash\cassette33sideA.mp3

or

C:\Users\your user name\Music\Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues.wav

Or however you do it.

Secondly: Imagine one cassette as it is on your PC.

Is there just ONE file for each cassette? Or do you have it broken down into individual songs? Or 1 file for each side of the cassette?

Lastly: are these music files in mp3 form? Or FLAC? Or WAV? Or?
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Yes, and thanks for the response. I hope this is what is needed:

The files are on Drive C under “Programs”



Each Cassette (both sides) equals one file. In your examples option B is the the way they appear.

All music is mp3
 
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Did you deliberately put them in C:\Programs?

Nothing wrong with that, but it is surprising. I was expecting something like C:\Music or C:\Cassettes or somewhere under C:\Users.

About how many mp3s total?

Right now, if you navigate to C:\Programs, find the cassette, and poke it with the mouse, will it then play with Audacity? Or with another program? Or not play at all?
 
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About 50 mp3's. When I click on the cassette it plays with media player. NOT legacy, but the media player with windows 11. Here's where I reach my level of uselessness, sorry. I try to follow the instructions I found on the web and they say transfer the file to BURN, and I jusrt gave up.

I tried to show you the whole C:// line but I can't copy it, sorry.
 
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Maybe look into Media Player help files/docs? <aybe it explains how to create/manage a media library.

I use VLC to play audio and video, and i don't keep media libraries. I do recall Media Player has always been bare bones and just good enough to play stuff, but not really much.

Also, is it a problem that media player opens mp3 files? Do you want Audacity to open them?
It's probably a bad idea to have an editor open mp3s rather than a player. But you can choose which program opens mp3s by right clicking on an .mp3 file and selecting "Open with..."
This lets you choose a program or select a default program to open mp3 files.
 
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It's only that Media Player Legacy is easier for me to work with. When I could think straight, I'd just go down the list and rip my cd's. (very seldom burned anything). The new media player, makes me have to hunt for stuff. I think it was here that I was directed to find legacy again after I thought it was gone.

Also. last night, before bed, I tried to move audacity's cassette files over to legacy, and never could find those files. I didn't think to look at W11 mp - the one I don't like.

Basically the way I thought this whole thing would end up is for me to stream ALL my recorded music (cd's and cassettes) from my smart tv's, and every time I looked for "How to move audacity files to WMP", I ran into that "move it to BURN" direction,. So I backed off and came here. Why would I want to BURN my cassette music, when I can just move the files, is the way I thought that through.
 
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In post 2, I asked you where the cassette files were kept on your C drive.

You said "The files are on Drive C under “Programs”".

If you want to play cassette file 29, why not navigate to C:\Programs and poke number 29. Let it play with Media Player.

What's wrong with that?

Not sure why Audacity has anything to do with this, now that you have everything on the PC rather than just on cassette.
 
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I just played a Dylan tape and it played it off W11 media player and not the legacy one. It's fine, Lafong, and thank you for taking me by the hand, as it were. It's appreciated.

To conclude my latest fiasco, I think I mentioned before that due to my age I learned everything computerese by OJT. I hate that I had to learn it that way, but I am so very glad that there's you and Tom's Hardware that I can turn to.

Thank you, sincerely

Bill👍😛

PS: I'm a better drummer. Joe Morello was my "Rabbi".
 
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Done. Thanks so much to everyone for helping this old geezer to "geeze" happily listening to my music! Y'all are fantastic! Where's that thing I click on to let Lafong know they rocked it? Looked fot it on the side of all these posts, but could not find it.
 
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Wolkie 72 said:
I just played a Dylan tape and it played it off W11 media player and not the legacy one. ...
Click to expand...
Right click on a file (.mp3 or other), select Open with, then Choose another app.

Menu shows up where you can select an application to open the file. Just once, or permanently.

If you can't see the app you like on the list, click Choose an app on your PC and a file explorer window will open up. You can use this to add the exact program you want to open the file(s). It will then be added to the list.
You might need to do a file search first, in case you don't remember where you installed the program.
 
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35below0 said:
Right click on a file (.mp3 or other), select Open with, then Choose another app.

Menu shows up where you can select an application to open the file. Just once, or permanently.

If you can't see the app you like on the list, click Choose an app on your PC and a file explorer window will open up. You can use this to add the exact program you want to open the file(s). It will then be added to the list.
You might need to do a file search first, in case you don't remember where you installed the program.
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Got a message telling me "the file has an extension (aup3) that is not recognized. MP may still be able to play the file.... (paraphrasing) , but you should be sure it comes from a trusted source...." so I chose WMP Legacy (ALWAYS), but got a response that it could not play the file.

It will play on the W11 MP, and as long as it does play, I'm okay with it, 35below0, thanks! 👍🤗
 
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AUP files are Audacity files and supposedly can be played ONLY with Audacity. I have no idea personally. I've used Audacity for 20 years and have NEVER had an AUP file.

You've said your files are MP3.

You should be able to convert AUP files to MP3 files using Audacity.

But I have no idea why you would need to do that if you have already got your music in MP3 form.

If Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is on your PC as an MP3 file, why bother with some AUP version of the same song?

Not sure of what you are ultimately trying to do and can only rely on your descriptions.
 
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Just replying to **35Below0**, **Lafong**. They were nice enough to add an opinion, so I tried it and it didn't work. Nothing further is needed. I am fine with everything you helped me with - just as it is. Thanks, again.
 
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