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Gale Andrews wrote:If we went for behaviour 2) then I think it would be desirable to give compressed projects a separate extension to distinguish them from AUP.

Gale

Sounds cool. .ACP perhaps (if not used elsewhere?)

So the objective is to have two versions of each song project you which you can easily open to see the waveforms: 1) containing the two comparison tracks 2) containing the single track mixed down from both? And 1) is a compressed copy of a project? I think that will work well, but you should close ...

Compare these two files. One is a first generation Ogg file with quality setting 5. The other is a 7th generation file with quality setting 5 (each time). Interesting. There's noticeable 'phasing' on the 7th generation, which is NOT what you get normally when you recompress an AAC or MP3. I have to...

Yes, that works fine. :D I'll keep the copy folder, but just trash its contents after each time I use it. Just one further question - I make a copy, but this time I do an edit. I save the edit back to the copy folder as a Compressed Copy I move the .aup and Ogg Vorbis files back to their original fo...

Please be aware that each time the audio data is compressed it causes additional damage to the sound quality. That damage is unavoidable and irreparable. See my previous reply. The problem is when I open that project again. Whether I make any changes, or simply play the project, Audacity seems to i...

The problem that I see with that is that it would appear that the original OGG file had been retained, when in fact it has been replaced by a lower quality copy (due to lossy compression). Consequently I think that it would be a necessary default to show a warning, which would be a minor inconvenie...

You are very welcome to vote for any of: Opening files directly like a media player, perhaps with a waveform, but no editing possible. Reopened compressed projects store their PCM data in the Audacity temp folder. Only OGG files are in the _data folder for the compressed project. When you save the ...

IF Audacity has opened a compressed project by reading in its Ogg Vorbis files, then if no changes are made (apart from playing), jettison the PCM files without writing them out. Can't be done (without an option to directly play a file like a media player would). Deleting the PCM files would destro...

This arose out of a puzzle I had using Audacity (I'm not very experienced with it). Basically, I had taken the option to Save my project as a Compressed copy, creating Ogg Vorbis files and an .aup file, then closing the project without saving a full quality version. What I hadn't understood (I do no...

Ah, I now understand on the CAUSE of the problem, but not the fix!! When I FIRST create the project I use the Save Compressed Copy option (which creates a _data folder with the Ogg Vorbis files, AND the .aup file. However, when I come to close the project I choose to NOT save it when prompted, thus ...