Audacity Forum

let me add this tidbit..... in the past when preparing a torrent for sharing, i have taken samples from a .wav file and converted to mp3 to post along with the torrent for folks to judge the general quality of a recording - a tool to assist in their decision to downloiad/not download. when i listen ...

"These date from 2002 (!), and I think they come from the folks who like to record live shows by musical performers, then produce and distribute recordings without the assistance of the artists or their record companies. (Back in my day, we called these "b00tleggers") The good news is, these people ...

the purpose is to try to see if a file i have on a CD was converted to a .wav from an MP3 before I burned it to disk - it's been over a decade since i burned the disk and years of free thinking has rendered some memories incomplete. I have a CD of a very rare performance of a band calling themselves...

I have seen an option on a program i have "somewhere" that purports to be able to tell. I don't remember where. I was looking around audacity to see if that was it. there is anj option in traders little helper that says "test wave files for mpeg". the file i'm concerned with returns " track looks li...

Is there a way (using audacity) to test if a .wav file was ever an mp3?

TIA