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I realize it doesn't make a big difference, but why not export MP3 in float instead of 16-bit? Just to touch bases, where are you getting the information that the Audacity exported MP3 has 16-bit values? https://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/browse/audacity-src/trunk/src/export/ExportMP3.cpp (Y...

That is a spurious argument because the Track Info does not show the format of the audio in the track. The Track Info only shows the "default" format for the track. For example, if you copy some 16-bit audio from a "16-bit track" and paste it into a "32-bit float track", then you have 16-bit audio ...

The Ogg Vorbis decoder only supports 8 or 16 bit ( http://linux.die.net/man/1/oggdec ). Lots of formats are 16-bit, but they still obey the default sample format. Yes, but OGG was the only natively supported format whose decoding was limited to maximum 16-bit. 16-bit WAVs are obviously limited to 1...

I realize it doesn't make a big difference, but why not export MP3 in float instead of 16-bit? Just to touch bases, where are you getting the information that the Audacity exported MP3 has 16-bit values? https://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/browse/audacity-src/trunk/src/export/ExportMP3.cpp (Y...

This has nothing to do with the MP3 format, it's about the LAME API and how Audacity uses it.

Some file imports use the default sample format setting, others don't. The ones that don't include APE (or any other ffmpeg format) and OGG. They are always 16-bit regardless of the setting. Bug reports about Audacity should please give your version of Windows, Mac or Linux and three-section versio...

I realize it doesn't make a big difference, but why not export MP3 in float instead of 16-bit? In most cases this will avoid a needless conversion to 16-bit and back to float (LAME uses float internally). Perhaps very old versions of LAME didn't have float APIs? Worst case, somebody has to download ...

Some file imports use the default sample format setting, others don't. The ones that don't include APE (or any other ffmpeg format) and OGG. They are always 16-bit regardless of the setting.