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by underThunder
Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:20 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?
Replies: 9
Views: 1445

Re: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?

Before you do that, listen to some of them and decide if you actually need to do anything. There's a good chance that there's no problem with them. No they all sound fine, i've been listening to them for the past 2 years. It's really just to satisfy my perfectionism. And it's gonna be a fun weekend...
by underThunder
Sat Jun 19, 2021 4:46 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?
Replies: 9
Views: 1445

Re: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?

Thank you, that is exactly what i was looking for! And dreading at the same time. :mrgreen:
Guess i'll go and redo around 3000-4000 files as soon as it gets colder inside again. At least i'm gonna be a lot faster this time, since now it's just importing and exporting for most files.
by underThunder
Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:39 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?
Replies: 9
Views: 1445

Re: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?

Sorry for the late reply, i was quite bussy the last few days. I've also watche this video by Dan Worrall: https://youtu.be/2iDrbgfPjPY Okay so editing in 32bit is preferable because rounding errors are more precice. So for my case i'm better off downsampling my 24bit files from audacitys 32bit floa...
by underThunder
Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:16 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?
Replies: 9
Views: 1445

Why does audacity convert 16 & 24bit files to 32bit float?

I've read through some other posts and articles regarding this question, however there's still a few things i dont quite understand. Like what exactly happens when audacity upsamples these files to 32bit? People say it's better and more 'accurate' to edit files at 32float, but how does that even mak...
by underThunder
Tue Jun 15, 2021 12:03 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: 16 & 24 bit files automatically converted to 32 bit float
Replies: 1
Views: 138

16 & 24 bit files automatically converted to 32 bit float

I regularly use audacity to convert 24 bit files from bandcamp artists to 16 bit and/or 48+khz files to 44.1. Audacity always open files as 32bit float, whether they are 16 or 24 bit, even after changing my preferences. Until now what i always did was to manually change the format in the drop down m...