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I hope this is in the correct place to post. I have somehow worked my way out of all of the little glitches and bugs in the year I've had BiaB. Here's my current issue. It doesn't happen all the time so it's hard to reproduce on demand or even know WHY it happens.

I complete my song and render it...usually I start with a WAV file since that's supposed to be the most common. I open a fresh DAW session, in my case Logic, and drag the WAV file into the track. Most of the time everything is great. Every so often the file is the correct length but for some reason some or all of the instruments just stop playing...like they just decide to take a break. I try AIFF and M4A and the same issue occurs. Sometimes when I open the file in the DAW plugin it fixes the issue but it has happened there as well. Does anyone know what's happening? Is this a common issue? Is there a way to fix it so that it NEVER happens again? Inevitably it happens when I'm on a tight deadline

Thank you all.

Pete

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Hello Pete,

Are you able to determine if the issue is with the rendering of the file or if it is with dragging it into your DAW? For instance, if you were to notice this issue on a particular track, could you open that track in a media player and listen to it to see if it was playing back correctly?

Could you also provide what your version and build of Band-in-a-Box you are using? You can find these by opening Band-in-a-Box and clicking | Help | About Band-in-a-Box |. Here you will find the version and build in this format: Version 20## (###).


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That has happened with me on rare occasion. I’ve found that rebooting my Mac corrects it. It might be helpful to monitor your memory usage during a session when this occurs particularly if you are running a relatively small amount of RAM, ie, 8 gig or so.

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Not enough information — need to know your MacOS and version of BIAB.


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Originally Posted By: CubanPeteNYC
I hope this is in the correct place to post. I have somehow worked my way out of all of the little glitches and bugs in the year I've had BiaB. Here's my current issue. It doesn't happen all the time so it's hard to reproduce on demand or even know WHY it happens.

I complete my song and render it...usually I start with a WAV file since that's supposed to be the most common. I open a fresh DAW session, in my case Logic, and drag the WAV file into the track. Most of the time everything is great. Every so often the file is the correct length but for some reason some or all of the instruments just stop playing...like they just decide to take a break. I try AIFF and M4A and the same issue occurs. Sometimes when I open the file in the DAW plugin it fixes the issue but it has happened there as well. Does anyone know what's happening? Is this a common issue? Is there a way to fix it so that it NEVER happens again? Inevitably it happens when I'm on a tight deadline

Thank you all.

Pete

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Originally Posted By: CubanPeteNYC
Is there a way to fix it so that it NEVER happens again? Inevitably it happens when I'm on a tight deadline



No.

The fix needs to come from Apple.

I rarely encounter it in BIAB but run into it all the time in Finale. The workaround is to export as .aif and convert to .wav or .bwav if that's what I need.

Conversion of a non-lossy audio file involves rewriting the header only. The raw audio underneath is unaffected. Many times, such as with Apple, the real culprit is a corrupted header — "converting" .wav to .wav strips and rewrites it. I have a client who records with a CD Audio Recorder (might be the only guy in the world still using one) that outputs .aiff3 — although Apple supports it, my Mac and DAW absolutely freak out if I don't convert first.

Although you can convert one file at a time in QuickTime, iTunes/Apple Music can be set up to do batch conversions. There are inexpensive solutions and freeware might exist for this but I don't use them.

I use an app called TwistedWave that can batch-convert hours worth of mixed files and dump the results back into their original folders or a new folder if I wish. Never takes longer than 2–3 minutes for me. It has many other neat tricks including sample rate conversion and reflow (no pitch change) time stretch/compression and pitch change with ZTX and lots more goodies. You can buy it through the App Store but there's a 30 day free trial if you go direct.

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Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran
The fix needs to come from Apple.

I believe that's correct. If I'm not mistaken, the audio conversion is done by a library in macOS.


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