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32-bit integer has even higher precision than 32-bit float, but has an absolute limit of 0 dB. 32-bit float still has extremely high precision, and can go over 0 dB. The fact that it can go over 0 dB is a very helpful feature when editing and processing. OK, thanks steve, that's very helpful to kno...

That quite interesting! So keeping everything at 32 bit avoids that dithering issue - I'm still learning :-) One other question about exporting. "WAV (Microsoft) 32-bit float PCM" vs "Other uncompressed > WAV (Microsoft) > Signed 32-bit PCM" Same file exported via each method produce different check...

Linux Mint 18.3 / Audacity 2.1.2 / Installed distro release I loaded a WAV and exported it to a FLAC. Without changing anything, I immediately exported it again. The exported FLAC files have differing checksums. (No meta data was included) Then I used a CLI tool (flac) to convert the same WAV file t...