As so advised in earlier Acer Community posts, -having the External HD (with all the audio-files that I want to edit etc.) plugged into the front USB 3.1 port -I booted up the Aspire Desktop TC-895-EB11.
From the "This PC" icon I was able to open both "BIG DRIVE 1 (E:)" (which is one of the partitions in the 2TB External HD that has the audio files in File folders that I want to edit etc.), -and "New Volume (D:)" (which is the internal X4 NVMe SSD that is most suitable for audio).
And as advised in an earlier Acer Community post, I had both "BIG DRIVE 1 (E:)" and "New Volume (D:)" windows opened side by side.
I then was able to copy & drag the specific audio file folders from "BIG DRIVE 1 (E:)" into the "New Volume (D:)" window. These audio files sure didn't take as long to transfer as such things did in the older machine I was working with, but it does take a bit of time.
-I successfully copied & dragged the four 2020 & 2021 audio file folders that I had into the internal x4 NVMe SSD, ( "New Volume (D:)" ) -one at a time.
-My troubles weren't over yet however, I then ran into a bit of a snag.......
When I double left click on the "This PC" icon -and then go to the left side of the "This PC" window and go down the list of drives etc. to "New Volume (D:)" -and then left click on that, I get a "New Volume (D:)" window -with the four 2020 & 2021 audio File folders, (-that I had previously copied & dragged into the "New Volume (D:)" window -from the "BIG DRIVE 1 (E:)" window.)
-Then when I double left click on say the first 2021 "#2nov2020withredo" File folder -
-I get a "This PC > New Volume (D:) > #2nov2020withredo > " window
-and this reveals the original name of the original project -as I had it titled on the Radar 24 audio recorder, " MAY Triplets LV_01-24_RADAR "
When I double left click on "MAY Triplets LV_01-24_RADAR" -
-I get a "This PC > New Volume (D:) > #2nov2020withredo > MAY Triplets LV_01-24_RADAR " window -with this list;
Name Date modified Type Size
[ ] Audio Files 2021-08-30 4:21 AM File folder
[ ] Disk Info Files 2021-08-30 4:15 AM File folder
[ ] Project Info Files 2021-08-30 4:15 AM File folder
[ ] RADAR System Files 2021-08-30 4:15 AM File folder
-When I double left click on " [ ] Audio Files " -I get this very long vertical list of little bit -wav files under "Name" starting with 000000b6.wav, 000000e4.wav -to 0001b7a0.wav and to 0001b7a1.wav -etc.,etc., to 0001b999.wav and to 0000002c.wav ---all the way to 00827995.wav
This makes some sense to me,.... -The original audio project was done on a 24 track audio recorder, -so the original project screen layout was of these 24 tracks presented horizontally -showing some graphic representation of the audio in these various 24 tracks -and time lengths etc.
However, -when I right click on " MAY Triplets LV_01-24_RADAR " -on the "This PC > New Volume (D:) > #2nov2020withredo >" window -I get another list;
Open
Open in new window
Pin to Quick access
Give access to >
Restore previous versions
Bitdefender >
Include in Library >
Pin to Start
Send to >
Cut
Copy
Paste
Create shortcut
Delete
Rename
Properties
Then, when I left click on Open -I get the "This PC > New Volume (D:) > #2nov2020withredo > MAY Triplets LV_01-24_RADAR " window again -with its same list ;
Name Date modified Type Size
[ ] Audio Files 2021-08-30 4:21 AM File folder
[ ] Disk Info Files 2021-08-30 4:15 AM File folder
[ ] Project Info Files 2021-08-30 4:15 AM File folder
[ ] RADAR System Files 2021-08-30 4:15 AM File folder
When I try clicking on "[ ] Audio Files" again I just keep getting this "Groove Music" window -where it says, "My Music" -Songs Artists Album -and then it says, "Nothing to show here. Try another filter."
-This was a dead end (at first), -when I would get to this "Groove Music -Nothing to show here.Try another filter" window, I found that I couldn't even get out of this window with nothing responding to mouse commands I would resort to Restarting the computer and go back to the "This PC" ICON and trying again.
-Earlier in the day I was trying these sorts of things and I found then that I could click on a play-engine or something similar -and then click on PLAY, ( I plugged headphones into the green socket in the back of the Desktop and was able to hear audio ).-then I could click on any of the thousands of the 0000002c.wav type bit-wavs -and I could hear a little we bit of the song depending on what track I chose. On the first track (the vocal track) -each bit-wav would contain perhaps one line of the song.
For whatever reason, while trying to type some of this post the "Groove Music" window -where it says, "My Music" -Songs Artists Album -and then says, "Nothing to show here. Try another filter." -suddenly changed and went black, -with an audio symbol and the numbers of one of those many 0000002c.wav type bit-wavs. by clicking on this I found that I could hear the audio -even though it's only a we little amount. -But I'm not yet able to make anything much more of this.
I would like to be able to review these songs normally and listen to them from start to finish of course.
The other thing, most importantly is figuring out how to get this audio into one of those DAW software Apps so that I can begin editing
It may be that I will need to get this audio into one of those DAWs before I will be able to listen to anything -normally......-though there could very well be steps to be taken where I could become able to listen to the music properly right out of the drive ?
I'll try again tomorrow, I find it extremely difficult experimenting around while also trying to write an Acer blog post. -Things are disappearing & appearing on the screen while I write posts and when I'm just investigating I find myself forgetting details that I would wish included in a post.
I'm getting closer to my goal, -but it seems that there could be a lot more to go through before I'll be editing audio.....
Thanks,
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