Borealis loads a song but doesn't finish it

The copy paste thing is a known issue, and some development on fixing it had been made before Michael realized he needed an actual income to continue, well, living, and you know the rest.

Helpful hints when copy/pasting, and this goes for everyone following this thread:

1.  Always COPY, never CUT.  Sometimes events won't paste, and if you cut, you can't always undo, which forces you to either close the sequence and reopen it (thus losing changes), or re-program that lost section.  So copy, paste, and then delete the original if you need to.

2.  Verify that all cells copied over.  On my machine, sometimes the first column doesn't make it over.  Don't assume it will always work because it won't.  Again, Michael is aware of this, but nothing is going to change, at least not this year.

3.  You can't copy / paste W2E events.  Those must be regenerated.

You can also try modifyng your sequences via deweycooter's program (send him a message if interested).  It can take an old sequence, change the channel layout, and I believe it may be able to deal with events, but I'm not sure as it won't work on my systems (making converting last year's sequences to this year's channel setup a living hell for me as well, so I feel your pain).

But I'm glad to hear that Borealis is behaving for you once again.

Well, that's good news.  Auroa will work with any audio file, but mp3's can be problematic depending on the code used to compress it.  Since Aurora generates a .wav file anyway, it is recommended to use a .wav file to begin with. 

Anyway, exit Borealis.  Open up the task manager, and make sure it's no longer running because it usually is.  Then try deleting borealis.dat (it will regenerate itself when you start Borealis again).  See if that helps.