Audacity Forum

@steve: Thank you for both of your helpful responses. Between your suggestions and those of others in this thread, I believe that all bases have been covered and that I'll be able to import/cut/paste/export with confidence, knowing that I'll be preserving the characteristics of the original files. C...

@billw58: Bill, as a follow up to my last "Thanks!" reply to you,... As you suggested, I set the Default Sample Format in Preferences > Quality to match the sample format of the files to be joined, which in this case is 24-bit. I did this before importing the files. But when I imported the files, I ...

@billw58:
Perfect! Many thanks, Bill!

Cheers,
Paul

...What you, as a novice, have to accept is that those who wrote the software knew what they were doing and have set it up to do a good job for almost everybody. And for those who aren't happy with those results, they have provided lots of "knobs and sliders" to twiddle so that they can try and imp...

You want a WAV editor, not Audacity. Audacity converts all incoming work to a very high quality internal sound format, edits, and then converts again during export. There is no guaranteed relationship between in and out. Thanks, Koz! That makes sense and it sounds like exactly what I'm looking for....

When joining two audio files together, I would like to be sure that the resulting file retains the characteristics of the original files of which it is comprised. Specifically, I'm concerned that, as a result of certain preference settings (e.g., Import/Export), I may accidentally alter the characte...