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Very kewl. I will download and experiment with that....

But keeping in topic with my original post.... IMA vs MS .... can someone elaborate on which is best to use or what the pros/cons are in layman's terms?

Hmm. Looks promising. I'm on a windows machine though and didn't find any current windows binaries for downloading... just a beta and an older version that's not recommended. Am i just overlooking something?

IMA ADPCM vs MS ADPCM I have some wav files that were recorded at a high bitrate and i want to re-export them with a lower bitrate. They are mostly voice-wavs and i don't need any high quality or anything. I did some quick reading on what i should do, and i experimented by exporting to 8bit and 4bit...

Very kewl, thanks Stevethefiddle. It all makes sense to me.

-5db down? When recording i'm reaching -6db on audacity (if i'm reading it right). Yeah i'm recording off of streaming radio broadcasts. By increasing the recording level, are you meaning to increase the level of "What U Hear"? The audacity volume control is maxed out so i'm assuming thats...

Thanks for the both of you who helped me with this. I've fixed the problem. I'm not sure what , if any noise, you were able to hear, but when i was hearing the noise.. it was VERY LOUD! I made a 5 second recording of silence and played it in winamp. I heard LOUD LOUD hissing noise. I lowered the vol...

I haven't toyed with the sound levels at all actually. My sound blaster volume levels are at 70%, which coincides with the windowsxp volume control and when i play back the recorded saved file on winamp i'm playing it at 23%. (turned down) I'm not sure about the settings on audacity as i'm still try...

Yeah, that's what i said.. makes no sense to me why the noise would only be heard after saving the file and playing back, and not on the actual (unsaved) recording. I did what you suggested. You can find a test.wav file on the following link. I recorded a few seconds of silence before a streaming ra...

Hey there, i'm new to Audacity and the community, and i've encountered something i'd like some input on. When i record speaker output (whether it be a song, or a live radio stream) the recording sounds fine in audacity. Once i export to mp3 or wav and play back the file i hear background noise.. a h...