Audacity Forum

Windows has information under Properties/Details, Audio/bit rate, where a rate of 705 kbps calculates out to 16bit/44100 fps. I'm curious why a file with this property value opens marked as 32-bit float when it was saved as 16 bit PCM. Does Audacity convert incoming files to floats? That would make ...

When I export, I create a new name for the new file. I do not overwrite files. This was to help make sure that there was not some sort of file lock thwarting the save. Start with CrowCaw.wav, which has 22050 and 32-bit float. Modify CrowCaw to be 44100 and 16bit. Export or Export Selected to a new f...

Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.1 I have a wav file that comes in as 22050 rate and 32 bit float sample format. I will do the following and export to an entirely new wav: 1) change rate to 44100 2) Effect/Change Speed and apply 0.5 (brings the pitch back down to starting point) 3) change the format to 16-b...