Hi Bob,

The 32/34 bar sheet you talk about with only an initial C chord is the BIAB "empty" chord sheet. That's BIAB's starting place for entering a song.

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I then go to File, Open at top and am asked if I want to save file.

At the point in time, BIAB is asking if you want to save the BIAB song, not the wav file. If you click "Save" here, it will attach the wav file as audio to the BIAB song. It sounds like not saving is your best option.

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Now I see the rendered WAV file listed but when open it I get that 34 bar sheet with only a C chord at start.

This sounds like you are trying to open the WAV file in BIAB. Is that correct? If so, BIAB does not load WAV files to play them, it only loads them to analyse their chord structure. Song files for BIAB are the MGU or SGU files. If you want to play the WAV file, you'll need to use something like Windows Media Player.

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By the way, when I start BIAB, that 34 bar C chord sheet always appears first.

This is normal. It's BIAB simply starting with a blank chord sheet for you to enter chords.

Hope this helps,
Noel

P.S. If you go to the below link and scroll down the webpage until you get to the section called "Video Archives", you'll find some excellent video tutorials on BIAB that Peter Gannon has put together.

http://www.pgmusic.com/videos.bbwin.htm

Even though some of these are for different versions of BIAB, they are still relevant to the present version.

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