Audacity Forum

Thank you Steve for the reply and information.
It is an "office" laptop, maybe I can get them to upgrade before my next concert.

The best way to explain this might be to say that the MP3 format is a lossy form of compression - it makes the file smaller by removing parts of the file. Expanding the file to a higher bit rate will increase the file size but never add the missing information back into the file.

Hello I used Audacity 1.2.6 (in windows7 pro) for the very first time tonight to record a concert. After it recorded for about 2.5 hours, I hit save. It wouldn't save, gave me an error which unfortunately I couldn't make note of. I exported data to a wav file, and the progress bar started across at ...