Hey guys,
So a couple days ago there was a group of girls in one of the studios using audacity and when they opened up their file it only had one track. They said that they had mutiple tracks with voice, music, and other sounds. The problem was that they were opening up an mp3 format when they should have been opening up the original audacity file.
With most programs they save it in their own custom format specific to that program. For example photoshop has psd files, Illustrator has Al files, and Audacity has AUP files. These files retain all the settings and allow the projects to be opened back up and become editable.
From there you can then save it as any format you want, mp3, jpeg, pdf (depending on what kind of project it is. HOWEVER, make sure you keep the original file!!! I cannot stress this enough, if you lose that original file you will not be able to edit your project anymore. So if any students come in asking how to save an mp3 in audacity, or a jpeg in photoshop, make sure you remind them to keep the original file as well!
Good reminder Jay. Also we have the opposite issue coming up, remind people that if they save the project, that does not produce an MP3 or WAV file. Remember it's File-Export to make an audio file.
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