Audacity Forum

Practical use case for 32-bit float:
Mid production, I want to make lossless backups of my valuable tracks. I export as 32-bit float WAV.

Practical case 2:
Impulse files for convolution effects.

cyrano wrote:The default waveform view as it is now is very misleading.

See also: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 56#p281856

Let's say that you import a 16-bit WAV file. You would like the track to be labelled as "16-bit"? You amplify the track by -3.5 dB. I assume that you are happy about the track data being processed in 32-bit float? Should the processed data be converted back to 16-bit at this point? If so, ...

AFAIK every audio interface on the planet puts out either 16 or 24 bit samples By default Audacity "puts out" 16 bit WAV files. Like Protools and many other similar applications, Audacity has a native "project" format from which you can "export" (IIRC Protools calls it...

LoneRanger wrote: I'm looking for the 'main' source-code file.

Audacity has close to half a million lines of source code. It would clearly be impractical to have that all in one file
You can browse the source code here: https://github.com/audacity/audacity

I don't think it inconsistent, given this is the first time we allow a global setting to be over-ridden. We allow users to override OD import preference. We allow users to override the default sample format. We allow users to override the default sample rate for individual tracks. We allow users to...

You should list this post in your publishers comments on Download.Com where this program most frequently comes from. I am also going to repost your post around some mac areas where audacity comes up in discussion. While you are doing that, feel free to encourage people to download from the official...

Audacity should decode ATRAC if you add FFmpeg to your computer. Decoding will not work if the file is encrypted (most ATRAC files are encrypted). There are many variations of ATRAC so I'd not be confident that FFmpeg (using a reverse engineered decoder) will succeed. Would FFmpeg be able to correc...

If another application grabs exclusive control of the sound card, then Audacity is likely to stop without warning. Given that Mediashout is a big multi-media application, and probably not designed to be used alongside other software, that could be the reason. As Koz wrote, other possibilities are th...

I have no idea what the internal format is for Rode's recording app. I've only used it on a couple of occasions, on a friend's iphone. I'd expect those to be PCM and that should work. That's the problem, we don't know, and Rode do not have that information on their website as far as I can see. &quo...