Audacity Forum

I saved at the same bitrate 192k, so I'm figuring some of the other MP3 options were different. I only deleted silence so I figured the file would not end up much shorter anyway. In fact while 10% shorter in play duration it's about 25% smaller in size.

Thanks for that. I was using an Audacity v1, so didn't see those options! I've now upgraded to v2 and stored the mp3 as a smaller file. In fact it's smaller than I calculated it should be by making the song play time 10% shorter - perhaps it has lost quality? Is there a way to see all the settings o...

I opened an mp3 file, cropped a few minutes silence from the end and beginning and exported it. The exported version is 8MB longer??