Audacity Forum

Audacity uses the Soundtouch library there are 2 algorythms, Time-stretching (heavier operation pitch stays the same) and Sample Rate Transposing ( stretching and affected pitch) Now i have tested versions of Audacity the time needed for a single wav file to encode - Changing Pitch from 440 to 432 w...

I still have my doubts, on most music tracks that play with lost of instruments modern music etc. than it is very difficult to notice any distortion that results from encoding from 440 to 432 hz but there is. You have to find a music track that sounds silent with minor instruments than you could sen...

This wav file is after encoding from 440.000 to 432.000 hz it is distorted. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1NKVBCKK If you try a sine wave of 300 hz generated in Audacity there is no distortion after encoding i can confirm, i already tried that when testing. The wav file in the first post is part of t...

I tested Audacity versions on 2 different PC's Win XP and one fresh installed Win 7 machine When change Pitch from 440.000 to 432.000 the next Versions show artifacts in the ouput. You clearly can hear an instability in the output file. You need a good wav example and speaker system to hear the diff...