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Title: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: gkatz on October 07, 2010, 03:34:46 PM

every time I try this I get an error saying "Cannot export .flac"  am I missing something? I know I can convert to flac with tlh, but is there some file I need or something to export directly from audacity?

Thanks

Gabe

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: dean on October 07, 2010, 10:58:14 PM

Need more info, I guess.  I've not had this problem.  What version are you running?  What's leading up to this?

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: gkatz on October 08, 2010, 12:08:52 PM

im running audacity 1.26 on windows 7 pro. I have never been able to export as flac in audacity.
up until the most recent instance of  the problem I was editing a 24/96 flac file in audacity, just screwing around with some features, trying to figure out parallel compression, etc.

If I export as uncompressed wav from either flac16 or flac24 and then convert it back in tlh, will I suffer quality loss?

another thing to note is that after I get the failed export error, I see an empty (0 bytes) flac file where I had wanted to export to.

maybe I should dry reinstalling audacity, or just start exclusively using sound forge. I should probably read up on that.

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: runonce on October 08, 2010, 01:34:32 PM

I dont think that version exports flac...

Recommend the 1.3.12 beta - lots of improvements from the "stable" version.

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: dean on October 08, 2010, 09:31:20 PM

Quote from: runonce on October 08, 2010, 01:34:32 PM

I dont think that version exports flac...

Recommend the 1.3.12 beta - lots of improvements from the "stable" version.

Ditto that.  Old version couldn't flac out.  Beta works quite well.

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: gkatz on October 09, 2010, 12:09:01 AM

upgraded to beta, works just fine now!
thanks guys

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: morst on October 09, 2010, 01:36:10 PM

Quote from: gkatz on October 09, 2010, 12:09:01 AM

upgraded to beta, works just fine now!

I'm not 100% sure that the audacity-exported FLAC files are compatible with archive.org!? I remember I tried using it, but wound up having to go back to exporting WAV's and FLACing with my normal means. It may only be an issue with 24-bit.

Title: Re: exporting .flac in audacity
Post by: acidjack on October 10, 2010, 11:29:21 AM

All of my FLACs are exported in Audacity; never had any issue with Archive.