Audacity Forum

The standard encoding options are highly optimised and although additional options are available through command line options you are unlikely to be able to make significant improvements over the options available through the normal Audacity interface. Thanks Steve, this is good advice, perhaps I a...

steve wrote:For best quality, don't change them at all, just play them back faster when you want to listen to them.

Should have mentioned I listen to them in an ipod in my car, and it cannot speed up mp3, only Audiobooks in MP4 format.

Hi all, I'm a complete noob with Audacity so pardon the dumb questions. I have a large library of MP3 Podcasts and not enough time to listen to them so I would like to speed them up in bulk, preserving them but also obtaining the smallest file size possible. The time it takes isn't particularly an i...