Audacity Forum

P.S I didn't read carefully before and I'm confused about something A stereo WAV file with one silent channel is the same size as if there is sound in both channels. In WAV file, silence takes-up just as much space as non-silence. (A regular 1-channel mono file is half the size.) So... Something el...

P.S I didn't read carefully before and I'm confused about something A stereo WAV file with one silent channel is the same size as if there is sound in both channels. In WAV file, silence takes-up just as much space as non-silence. (A regular 1-channel mono file is half the size.) So... Something el...

If you actually have a 6GB file you should be able to open it in Audacity as Raw data. Then export in a different format or in a different resolution. (It's the 32-bit file-size field in the WAV header that has overflowed and reporting the wrong size.) That's the thing. It would work if the origina...

Some systems can deal with 4Gb Are there any computers of the last 20 years that don't? I've not seen the problem occur below 4GB in the last decade. For a standard WAV file, the 4GB limit is absolute - data beyond 4GB cannot be accessed. Very often, exceeding 4GB will corrupt the file. Thanks Stev...

I'm not sure what went wrong, but there's a much easier way to make a single channel stereo recording play through both L and R channels: 1) Split to Mono 2) Delete the empty track (click on the [X] in the top left corner of the track. That's all. it will play through both L and R channels. When ex...

Hi, I work with several mono WAV files, they are pretty long (2 - 3 hours). They have stereo channel (L and R track), however, the audio is only on the left channel. I want to make the audio to play on both L and R channel, and here is what I did: 1. Split Stereo Track. 2. Select the whole left chan...