Audacity Forum

Try Exporting to the Desktop.

Set the "Project Rate" (lower left corner of the main interface) to 44100 before you export. The "Project Rate" determines the sample rate of exported files.
(see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/se ... .html#rate)

EnderW wrote:The original sound file was 96MB,

How long was the file? Mono or stereo? What format?
From the size difference, I'm guessing that the original file was a compressed format such as MP3.

What location did you select in the Export dialog screen?

This shows the file being exported into a "Jimi Hendrix" folder:



For more information, see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fi ... ialog.html

Also MediaInfo. A program that tells you all about your files. http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download There's a trick to this one and I don't remember what it is. I'm on a Mac I thing the "trick" that you are referring to is that the "Windows installer" version of MediaInfo ...

Steve Bender wrote:Pardon my ignorance, but when will 2.1.0 be out?

When it's ready
Unfortunately it was delayed due to the discovery of a bug. That's now been fixed so hopefully the release will not be delayed for much longer.

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