Audacity Forum

Thanks Steve for the useful information, especially about the degree of ogg compression used. It's an odd design; i would have allowed in a save to compressed project dialog for the user to specify the degree of ogg compression. You say that when creating a new project and recording/importing audio,...

Problem solved but Audacity has ungraceful behavior. When you open a compressed project by double clicking it in Windows Explorer, Audacity changes the 1KB .aup file into several dozen KB, and builds a huge e00 subdirectory in the _data subdirectory. When you close the project it doesn't remove the ...

Audacity is rendering rather strangely when first openning a compressed project file. I am using 1.3.12-beta on Win 7-64. When I double click the .aup file in Windows Explorer, the bottom track renders about 2 cm lower than expected. See the attached screenshot. Do I need a new library or new versio...

It is certainly true that if there is no e00 subdirectory then there is a large ogg file in the _data subdirectory. It seems to be there whether there is a large e00 directory or not. I wonder if the e00 directory is being written unnecessarily some of the time (not sure when). Perhaps I should just...

Thanks Koz and Steve for replying. Koz, I agree that different kinds of music would compress differently. But the variation shouldn't be a factor of eight for the same genre of music. Steve, it doesn't seem to be random. If I try to save compressed again on a project that didn't compress very well, ...

I'm new to Audacity but seem to be getting along. I am confused about a couple of things though. I'm using Audacity 1.3.12-beta, on Win7-64 1) When I File > Save as compressed project, sometimes for a 40 minute music recording I get a 30-60MB project with no e00 subdirectory (this is somewhat compar...