Audacity Forum

If I am not mistaken, you can import MP3 files into Audacity and then export it out to WAV. Yes you can do that, but it's probably not worth the extra effort. Decoding MP3s is pretty much the same in any application and there is no significant sound quality loss when decoding MP3s, so if the CD bur...

Yes A is dithered, but it depends what you mean by "fidelity". B has more distortion than A (if you listen carefully to the tail end of the fade-out the sound in B gains a "metallic" tone). Personally I find it pretty hard to hear any significant difference unless I crank up the ...

As far as I'm aware Audacity does not support ADTS.
By itself, Audacity only supports a limited number of formats: WAV, Ogg, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 (import only) and a few less used formats, but Audacity can use FFMpeg to greatly extend the range of formats that can be imported and exported.

steve wrote:It "may" be possible to keep a second copy of the audio on the clipboard (not tested),

Update: Yes it is possible

and I guess I've then got to somehow link it to the software to get it recognised ... Many USB audio devices work fine with generic Windows drivers (the UCA 202 does), so it should be "plug and play". Actually, I think at some point in the past I did get a recording of sorts doing it my w...

I hope that I don't sound like I'm putting a damper on your enthusiasm Paul - quite the opposite is my intention, but it is hard enough to attract developer attention for developing features for which there is a compelling need. It is unlikely that we would be able to attract developer attention for...

Paul L wrote:Or perhaps, if there was some arbitrary, hard limit, or Preference, for the amount of lookahead and lookbehind, it would be an acceptable compromise.

Any reason to not just make the selection a bit bigger?

You may be able to import ADTS files if you install FFMpeg http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown (I've not tested because I don't have any ADTS files) You will probably also need to set the "File types" filter in the Import dialogue to "FFMpeg-...

Audacity should support building against FFmpeg 0.5 through 0.8. It may not currently be possible to build Audacity against later versions of FFmpeg.

I call in most days (sometimes a bit too busy at the weekends), so give a shout when you get near the end of step 9 (or earlier if you get stuck )