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I'm having some problems saving my audio with my BIAB song. I'm not sure if a setting got changed or not. This worked once (I think). I have a song I created in BIAB (song.mgu). I then add (record) the audio. When I play it right back it sounds great. I save the final production. When I go back in to open the saved song, no audio. There is a file out there called "tempmain.wav". That is my audio recording. How do I get the two merged so when I open the song.mgu song I have them both? I take all the default settings when recording audio. To "get around" the problem for now, I record the finished production using other software's "what you hear" option while playing the song before exiting. The problem is I can't make any changes later down the road because I don't have the finished product.

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I believe if you Save the song after recording the audio, that will change the name to match your song.

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i think rechael is correct as documented on page 106 of the 2008 pdf manual

The [Save] button saves your song in Band-in-a-Box format. Band-in-a-Box accompaniments are saved
with the file extension *.sgu. If a melody has been recorded the file extension will be *.mgu. The audio
track, if present, is saved as an associated wave file with the song name and the extension *.wav.

that's the theory now if there preference settings the over ride that................


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I tried Save. I tried Save As also. Is there some other setting that needs to be "on"? Even after the Save, there is song.mgu and the temp.wav file still out there.

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On my machine, I get a TEMPMAIN.WAV after recording audio. Once I hit Save, the name changes to match the file. I tried to reproduce your problem but could not. Try the process with another song. If that fails, try Return to Factory Settings.

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worst case

if the .wav file is not in the dir where your .mgu file is copy it there & rename as your .mgu and yeah it's not optimum but it will tell you if the file loads with the song

if you haven't tried it yet a reboot & opt > return all to factory settings may help


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Thanks, I'll give that a try. Heading out of town for a couple days. Will try it when I return.

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