Missing audio files (not missing but not playing?!)

Cubase
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Hello,

I am having an issue where some of my audio files are not playing in Cubase. When I open the session it appears to locate the files and the “Missing files” window doesn’t pop up. When I try and play them in the session however the clips are silent.

To confuse matters if I go into the pool and listen to the file it plays fine?! They are speech files that are synched up with a speaker on another track and have a significant amount of edits. If I drag in the files from the pool I would have to start again and recreate all those edits.

The only thing I can think is that cubase has somehow got confused about the time codes and is trying to link the clips to parts of the file that don’t exist? I can’t really see how that would have happened though.

Do you have any ideas what this issue could be? Thanks

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Sounds like you might have Muted the Audio Events (or even the Track) in the Project Window.

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It’s not that. But you gave me another idea… Thanks :smiley:

It was a weird automation glitch that i’ve never seen before. I had read and write turned off but it was reading the volume automation as -infinity on that section of the track for some reason. I don’t know why because I haven’t written any automation into the project yet :man_shrugging:. (Or copy pasted from a project that had.)

To make it weirder it also wasn’t showing any automation line at all in the volume channel. I only figured it out by looking at the fader position. Very weird. But solved. Thanks