Audacity Forum

stevethefiddle wrote:They both make the sound louder (or quieter), but one is a "destructive" edit (actually changes the recorded wave), and the other is "non-destructive" (doesn't change the recorded wave).

Try them both to see the difference.

Which is destructive and which in non-destructive?

Once you have your audio in Audacity, you can increase the volume with the slider (watch out for "clipping" distortion). If you double click on the slider, you should get a pop-up box where you can type in the amount of boost/cut (makes it easier to set to a specific amount. Alternatively you can us...

I can try this - I was just looking to get the complete uncompressed audio tracks. I kinda felt like if I am extracting them directly w/ no compression, I should be getting the highest quality files. I have read that elseware that there is a lot of audio that is artifically volume adjusted because o...

I am running Audacity on an Intel Mac running OSX I recently extractd the audio files from Pink Floyd's The Wall DVD - Resulting in 28 .PCM tracks. I used MacTheRipper 3.0 - R14i to extract the files. Then I converted the .PCM to .Aiff using AIFF from PCM 1.0b11. After converting the tracks the volu...