Audacity Forum

Thanks for the clear explanation. I thought something like that might be the cause of the problem, but I never realized the repeated compression/decompression would affect the audio that dramatically. I'll try to get the radio station to supply me with a WAV file next time.

I used Audacity (for the first time) to edit a radio talk show I host that was recorded at 150 kbps. After editing, I resaved as a 128 kbps MP3 using the LAME 3.97 encoder I placed in the Audacity folder. The resulting file sounds sort of like we're all underwater, with a slight, garbled echo behind...