Can't hear my audio in iMovie

I am getting so frustrated with this and I don't know how to fix it.
My iMovie is uploading videos fine, playing/cutting etc fine and sharing fine but whenever I try and add audio to my track, it recognizes there being audio but no sounds comes from it. Not even after I share it.
I can hear the audio when I play in the select box down the bottom, but once I've dragged it across to the become part of the movie the sound disapears??!! ITS COMPLETELY FRUSTRATING and annoying because I really just want to add audio.
The most annoying thing is it was working a few days ago and now not? What do I do?? HELP!!!

I'm really pleased you seem to have solved your audio problem on iMovie. Sadly it doesn't work for me as none of my audio files show the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark. The strange thing is that if I place the audio clip at the very beginning of my project - the first ten or so seconds - the clips play back without a problem, and if that sound clip continues uninterrupted throughout the whole project with no breaks, it will play seamlessly during the whole project. If, however, I try and do what most edits require and add clips further into the edit rather than at the beginning, those clips just wont play at any other point in the project. My iMac was with the Apple-store people for over a week to try and resolve the problem, various logs were taken and sent off, and they were totally dumbfounded as they couldn't replicate the issue, and still didn't come up with an answer, saying only that it was a bug that hadn't been identified. One consolation was at least I knew it wasn't anything stupid I was doing. The other consolation was that they gave me a gratis copy of Final Cut Express 4 to download so that I could at least finish the edit I was working on. This wasn't the ideal solution as certain things didn't transfer across during the iMovie integration, and there was another steep learning curve to work out how the damned program operated - it's far from user friendly, but needs must. I just find it difficult to comprehend how all those Apple software geeks cannot get their head around this problem as it only seems to have occurred since a recent iMovie update. I watch this space with great interest!

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