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I imported a 16 measure audio file and when I play the song, the audio file stops playing at the end of measure 12. I'm missing 4 measures of the audio file while BIAB continues playing the other tracks in the song. I'm just using this 16 measure song to test the process, so I'm not sure what's going wrong. Any ideas?

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What process are you testing? Can you post the 16 bar audio file online so others can test it?

What steps are you following to import the audio file? I don't have the manual for 2015 Band-in-a-Box (BiaB) for Mac but in 2020 BiaB for Mac you can either start at "File" > "Import" > "Import Audio" to open a dialog box and select the audio file. Or you can start at the "Audio" menu selection.

What are the settings in the BiaB for Mac Import Audio dialog box? Are you selecting merge or overwrite? What is the time setting? Does the dialog box identify the audio file as an Apple loop?

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Just testing the import process with a small file to make sure I understand how it works. My import dialog looks like this:

[img]https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oTpclSrZLs1NCft-R2ywZjI7BsvJ8m5b[/img]

All I change is the -1 to 1 in the measure box. That all seems to work fine, except it won't play the last 4 measures of the audio file. No indication of an Apple Loop.

link to audio file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Jaqizu9g2KvEbgZwtwdXl2ghh6nLfB7C

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I think I figured out what's going on. I set the audio dialog such that the file gets imported to measure 1 instead of measure -1 which is the default. But since BIAB has already determined the file length, it generates silence for the count off, but includes this time as part of the amount of data it's importing, then it starts importing the actual audio data. Since it thinks it has already imported some of the file, it doesn't read to the end of the audio file.

By putting a bunch of silence at the end, I gave BIAB more data than needed and it imported enough to play all the audio I wanted to hear. Not ideal, but an easy enough workaround to do. I'll have to experiment with how much silence to put at the end to ensure I don't waste a bunch of disk space.

Thanks for replying!

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