Audacity Forum

1. It would make overwriting the source file the default, which is generally a bad idea because almost any mistake would then permanently destroy your work with no chance of recovery. It is recommended to always export as a new file and keep your original source file at least until you have checked...

Steve, thanks for the reply. I implore you to implement "export to source directory" (whatever you wanna call it) so we can finally use this great programme ALL the time with our DAW's. Looks like you got a hell of a lot of feature requests there, but i'm hoping this would rather easy to implement? ;)

I like using Audacity as an audio editor for ableton. It's really a great editor. Unfortunately the one thing preventing it from being truly useable in this capacity is the "export" function. To use Audacity as an offline editor for ableton requires the audio file to be saved directly. As it is now,...