How do you upload 43 minute Audio from Audacity?

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Hi Warriors,

I am trying to upload a 43 minute audio book to my website...

I saved it in Downloads and also desktop.

When I go to upload in page of website, I get this error message:

Error Buddy The Ta…Audacity.aup
Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.

Also, I saved it in MP3 but when I try to import the file, it just makes a buzzing sound!

Hope some of you can help.

Thank you in advance

David

PS: I have the Lame dowloaded for Audacity.
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  • Profile picture of the author Valdor Kiebach
    Originally Posted by moonradar77 View Post

    Also, I saved it in MP3 but when I try to import the file, it just makes a buzzing sound!
    What are you trying to import the mp3 into.

    Have you tried exporting it as a wav or other format?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Thio
    The aup file type is actually audacity's project file, so that wouldn't be what you need to upload. You were right to export as an mp3, but I'm trying to think why it just makes a buzzing sound. Are you able to listen to it ok when it's on your computer before uploading? Maybe try changing the settings for exporting as mp3?
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    • Profile picture of the author moonradar77
      I have a file that looks rectangular with an end chopped off that says BuddyMP3 and 461 bytes... Then I have a file that says, Audacity File 256 KB's but I am trying to upload into my wordress website. I added S2 Membership and a plugin called Easy Digital Downloads.

      I got the buzzing sound as it said cannot upload a Stereo into Mono file.

      I only want to get two audio books of 43 minutes and the other 73 minutes. Wanted to market on the membership site which is not built totally.

      Took me a while to get the 43 minutes on Audacity and watched some youtubes on how to export to website but I wonder if file is too large, in that case I need alternative method to upload to website.


      Hoping someone has a better solution than what I have tried.

      Thank you,

      David
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      • Profile picture of the author BeechHill
        Pippin also makes an add on called, Audio Player, (search the extensions on EDD) for use with his Easy Digital Downloads plugin. It utilizes jPlayer HTML5 audio library for playing music files with fallback for older browsers.

        If you convert your files to the supported .mp3 and .mp4 format it should work just fine with this player. You'll get support to make this work.
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      • Profile picture of the author WillR
        Originally Posted by moonradar77 View Post

        I have a file that looks rectangular with an end chopped off that says BuddyMP3 and 461 bytes... Then I have a file that says, Audacity File 256 KB's but I am trying to upload into my wordress website. I added S2 Membership and a plugin called Easy Digital Downloads.

        I got the buzzing sound as it said cannot upload a Stereo into Mono file.

        I only want to get two audio books of 43 minutes and the other 73 minutes. Wanted to market on the membership site which is not built totally.

        Took me a while to get the 43 minutes on Audacity and watched some youtubes on how to export to website but I wonder if file is too large, in that case I need alternative method to upload to website.


        Hoping someone has a better solution than what I have tried.

        Thank you,

        David
        1. You should be uploading the mp3 file only. The other file is your Audacity project file and no one can do anything with that unless they have Audacity.

        2. You said your mp3 file is 461 bytes in size. That is absolutely tiny and does not sound right. A 43 minute audio should be much much bigger than that in size so something has gone wrong. Did you select the whole track before exporting it as an mp3 file? If not it may have only exported a few seconds of the track or nothing at all and that is why you hear nothing. Make sure you highlight the whole track before exporting.

        3. If you are wanting to host a 43 minute audio on your site then the last thing I would do is upload it to your website. You are much better off using a third party service such as Amazon S3. If you have a 43 minute audio file on your server and people start streaming or downloading that file then your server performance will start to suffer. The standard these days is to host all of those media files on a third party content delivery network such as Amazon S3.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Open the Audacity file. Click on File and then Export. A window will open and you'll be able to export it as a number of different file types. Click on MP3 and save it somewhere.

    Then to upload it I'd suggest you get Filezilla. It's a really simple FTP program and free. Just download it and open it. At the top of the screen you'll see three fields. The first is Host. Put the URL for your site in there. www.whatever... Then username and password in the next two. Then click on quick connect. Below all that you'll see a split screen.

    Your computer files are on the left. Locate your MP3. On the right you'll see the folders for your site. Click on Public HTML. You'll see all your pages and other stuff listed in the lower field.

    Once you have that, drag the MP3 from the left part of the screen into the Public HTML field. It'll take a little bit of time to upload depending on your connection. Then to access your file once it's uploaded type this: w w w.yoursite.com/MP3 file name. Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author BeechHill
    I forgot to mention to export as MP3, make sure the optional Lame MP3 encoder is installed on Audacity.
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    • Profile picture of the author moonradar77
      Thank you Warriors.

      I found a plugin Merge MP3 and that made it fairly easy for me.

      I was having problems with Audacity possibly because the audios were uploaded before on Itunes and I could get out out of the loop when I tried downloading on Audacity.

      I did have Lame installed and when I tried exporting to even desktop, I chose MP3 in options and thought I would be able to import to a web page. Unfortunately, I kept getting the error message when trying to upload.

      Thank you again Warriors for all your help.

      David
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