I have a long list of songs saved in my documents some are finished others are not. So I decieded to tidy them up a bit and put them in to categories (folders) However, when reviewing the finished songs I noticed the audio was missing. Thankfully, I was able to do a search and allocate the audio and match it with the file (music).
 
I was playing through some songs to ensure that all audio and music were nicely linked together. I noticed on opening up a file that there was a stuttering sound, similar to when you get a drop out. On this occassion I was unable to play the file at all. I change the audio bit depth back to 16 to see if it would work and it still did not play. Other songs play audio through the left speaker and music through the right. This has happened ever since I put songs in different folders so I can have some sort of order and control over my saved music files.
 
If anyone knows why I am getting a stuttering or why some of my music is playing instrumental through the right speaker and only audio through the left since I made some changes I would like to know how to fix this? so suggestions are welcome.
 
Using windows 8.1 Acer desktop with focusrite Saffire 24dsp
 
Thanks in Advance
 
 
 
 

It says audio is corrupt so it has been padded with silence and that is where I am getting vocals through the left and instrumental through the right speaker. These files played fine before.

Any Ideas?

You can't just move files around and expect Sonar to find everything the next time you open them, it doesn't work that way.
 
The best way is to open a  project and do a "Save As" to a new location, making sure you've got "Copy Audio With Project" checked.
This is assuming you're using Per Project Folders (which is the recommended way of working)
 
Once you've done this with all of your projects, you can safely delete the originals from your system

I've used Cakewalk products since the 90's and am fairly old school. I do projects that encompass many songs all the time so I don't use the Per Projects Folders option. I set up an audio folder and all my work goes there for a certain group of songs. Currently I have many audio folders for many different groups of songs. If I try to open a song from a different directory I'll get the missing audio dialog and then have to change the Global Audio Directory in Preferences. When I do so, all is well.
It sounds to me like you may have parts of your audio data in different folders. Not sure though, I've never had the audio left and right issue before.

I strongly recommend using per project folders. It will make life a lot easier in the long run.
 
The way I have my projects setup is I have a Cakewalk Files folder on a data HD. There I have all my projects in their own folders.   
 
BTW because I have this setup this way I can copy or move the Cakewalk Files folder to any HD I choose and Sonar will open these projects without any issues. This makes backup a breeze. The only files I have ever had trouble with are ones that were not using per project folders. I have to reassign the audio folder for those. 

John
I strongly recommend using per project folders. It will make life a lot easier in the long run.
 
The way I have my projects setup is I have a Cakewalk Files folder on a data HD. There I have all my projects in their own folders.   
 
BTW because I have this setup this way I can copy or move the Cakewalk Files folder to any HD I choose and Sonar will open these projects without any issues. This makes backup a breeze. The only files I have ever had trouble with are ones that were not using per project folders. I have to reassign the audio folder for those. 

Same here John.
 
Great minds.....

> I strongly recommend using per project folders. It will make life a lot easier in the long run.
 
I don't know why Cake supplies the other option away from project folders (I guess this is the way it has always been), I can't see the use case. Per Project folders seems the only way.

They do because it was the only way in the distant past, Alex.

I thought we settled the "need" for project folders and audio drives a long, long time ago...
C: OS & Sonar
D: general data
A: Audio [gotta love Win 7 letting you have a "A" drive that's not a floppy (look it up, floppy I mean)]
S: Samples or L for library whatever works
These are separate drives children not partitions.
Shouldn't there be (maybe there is!) some kind of "white" paper for this?
And a "sync" tutorial maybe, just sayin' ...
 
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