Audacity Forum

MP3 and MP4 are "lossy" formats. That means that each time it is encoded, a little bit more of the audio information is thrown away with some inevitable loss of sound quality. This is why it is highly recommended to work in a "lossless" format such as WAV, throughout the production process, and con...

When saving MP3, what's the kbps rate do, other than make the file bigger? There is a little distortion when playing back after saving to MP3, 320kbps. The file size is almost as big as the original MP4 (was a still picture video), so what file format should I save to so not to lose quality, relativ...

I just need to strip out the audio portion If you install ffmpeg, Audacity should be able to import the audio part of the video. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown Absolutely perfect. Still kinda mad at Microsoft for not allowing us to record exactly what...

Hmm, I found only one device that had an Enhancements tab, and they were all turned off. To be sure, I checked Turn them all Off anyway, and recorded again, but no difference. Much to my surprise, when I hovered over the Youtube Video, RealPlayer allowed me to download a copy. But that's an mp4. I j...

You may be suffering from Windows trying to help you. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements Windows is not a "tape recorder" any more. It's a corporate communications device. Koz I don't see any of those options in my Win8. But it's definitely the "tun...

Hi. I have v2.0.4 on Win8. Got it from the exe installer. I set it to record from Stereo Mix (IDT HIGH Definition). I set the sampling rate under Quality to 192000 and used "best quality". I played the nice Youtube video ( :) ) and recorded it with Audacity. I play it back with Audacity itself at th...