On 9/22/21 3:52 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
On 9/22/21 14:41, Dick Steffens wrote:
Anybody using Audacity? I had to use a Win10 machine to do some
recording this morning. When I got home I went to copy the .aup file and
directory to my Xubuntu machine. What I found was there isn't a .aup
file and folder, but instead a .aup3 file. I went back to the Win10
machine and tried to save as the old version, but that feature is not
available.
From https://fileinfo.com/extension/aup3 it looks like this happened
back in March of this year. I have version 2.3.3. The Win10 machine has
version 3.0.4. Synaptic does not show version 3 on my Xubuntu machine. I
hesitate to download the Linux version of 3 without knowing what will
happen to my existing Audacity projects done with 2.3.3.
According to the Audacity wiki, audacity-3.x will read and convert .aup
to .aup3 without issues.
I see that. My issue is using audacity-2 with a .aup3 file. Can't be
done, and the reason is pretty obvious, since they switched to SQLite.
Personally I never bothered with aup. I keep it all as either lossless
FLAC or uncompressed PCM WAV. That way, portability is assured. I can
easily enough convert to other formats with either audacity or a myriad
other tools.
I decided to export the files on the Win10 machine to .wav, and then
import them to audacity 2 on my Xubuntu machine. That worked. I was able
to fuss with the audio a bit to my satisfaction, and then export them to
.mp3, plus save the projects.
Your Xubuntu may too old have an older wxGTK or other libraries in the
repos that are not compatible with audacity-3.0.4. Compiling 3.x has
become a bit of a hassle.
It's Xubuntu 20.04, and I've kept up with the updates.
There appear to be some concerns about Audacity being "incompatible with
the GPL license" as noted at:
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/03/install-audacity-3-0-0-ubuntu-20-04-flatpak/
Flat who now? Yet another tool taking over other, as far as I know,
perfectly good tools. Sigh.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
