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Thanks a lot I was finally able to export it like that, it gave me the following error: The project sample rate (44100) and bit rate (24 kbps) combination is not supported by the MP3 file format. You may resample to one of the rates below. I chose 2400 and it exported correctly. Although I could exp...

I got this info from the original file: mediainfo my-audio.m4a General Complete name : my-audio.m4a Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Version 2 Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp42) File size : 17.7 MiB Duration : 1 h 41 min Overall bit rate mode : Constant Overall bit rate : 24.5 kb/s Encoded dat...

I don't actually want to re-encode the audio Then Audacity is not the right application. In order to perform all the editing and processing features that Audacity provides, it is necessary for the audio to be uncompressed. Therefore Audacity always decodes audio on import. This cannot be avoided wi...

https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=360326#p360326 What happens if you do that? Koz I've gone to Edit -> Preferences -> Quality and I've selected: Default Sample Format: 16-bit Real-time Conversion Sample Rate Conversion: Low Quality Dither: None High-quality Conversion Sample Rate Conve...

I'm using audacity in Linux Mint 19 and when I export to m4a the file increases in size from around 20 it goes to 60mb. It didn't happen when I used audacity before in Linux Mint 18.3. I don't know which version of audacity I used before, now I use v2.2.1.