Audacity Forum

It could be a libsndfile bug, or a bug in the application that made the file.
Audacity, libsndfile and sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/) can all open other 32-bit float 8 channel PCM WAV files, but not the files that you uploaded.

As koz says - check the Zoom manual, The options are: a) Record with the Zoom as a stand alone recorder onto a flash memory card, then transfer the recording from the flash memory card to your computer for editing. b) Connect the Zoom via USB to the computer and set the Zoom to work as a USB microph...

Is that a setting in JACK? With Jack, the recording channels are predictably in order. With Pulse, channels 1 and 2 are always Left and Right of my 2 channel sound card. (To use more than the first two channels requires a bit of magic to attach audio streams to the channels - something much more ea...

but would not conversion delay imports of those files that FFmpeg imported below 32-bit float depth? That depends on when Audacity converts. "We" know that the sample format displayed in the track info panel is not necessarily the actual format of the track data, and that all types of pro...

cmac185 wrote:I hope I have clearly explained my thinking

Sorry but I don't understand how you expect Audacity to know where you want the toolbars when you resize the window.

kozikowski wrote:Or more likely, it was easier to code.

No. Go back to an old enough version (early 1.3.x perhaps), white-space was included in the export.

In which way this is not "normal"? It's an 8 channel, signed 32-bit float RIFF file. Full info: Audio Format : PCM Format profile : Float Format settings, Endianness : Little Format settings, Sign : Signed Codec ID : 00001000-0000-0300-8000-00AA00389B71 Codec ID/Hint : IEEE Duration : 17s...

cmac185 wrote:I've been looking for a way to lock the tool bar arrangement so it doesn't shift around when I change the window size.

So if you make the window narrower than the toolbars, what should happen?

kozikowski wrote:Are we reacting to that one time in 1993 when one person needed an edit to not include leading silence?

I don't think the reason for excluding leading silence has ever been explained. Someone obviously thought at some time that it was a good idea, and made it so.

I don't think this rates more than P4 on the whole. I suppose that depends on how high we rate the importance of "best possible sound quality" and "ease of use". Both of these aspects would be improved if we handled sample formats "intelligently". If I recall correctly...