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G-CW-00663860
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Soundclips unavailable after renaming them
Hi. I have a bunch of sound clips/ music ideas from older and newer phones stored in DB. The other day in went through them, and changed names on 4 or 5 clips, which resulted in me not being able to ...
- 2 years ago
G-CW-00663860 wrote:
The other day in went through them, and changed names on 4 or 5 clips, which resulted in me not being able to listen to them anymore.
If they stopped playing after you renamed them, you likely removed the file extension. A file extension is the period and extra characters you see at the end of a filename, such as .mp3, .wav, .docx, etc., and is what your operating system uses to determine what the file type is so it will know what application to use to open/play it.
Rename your files again and make sure you include the appropriate file extension for the file type, then try to play them again.
Rich
2 years agoSuper User II
G-CW-00663860 wrote:
The other day in went through them, and changed names on 4 or 5 clips, which resulted in me not being able to listen to them anymore.
If they stopped playing after you renamed them, you likely removed the file extension. A file extension is the period and extra characters you see at the end of a filename, such as .mp3, .wav, .docx, etc., and is what your operating system uses to determine what the file type is so it will know what application to use to open/play it.
Rename your files again and make sure you include the appropriate file extension for the file type, then try to play them again.
- G-CW-006638602 years agoNew member | Level 2Thank you so very much, Rich. That worked
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