Audacity Forum

Thanks Guys, Just what I needed to know.

Thanks, Ignatz, I think I am getting it now. I really see no reason for me to use compression for what I plan to use these audio files for. As for the effect Amplify, might it cause any artifacts or does is merely raise the amplitude to the max. I set, e.g., -1 dB. IOW, it would not distort or chang...

Yes, that is correct. I will certainly use the on-line help in the future.
Thanks,
R

Thanks WC,
That makes sense. All those multiple bits in the Audacity Project certainly do make the data more vulnerable. It is an easy thing to save the .wav, so I will do so. Thank you,
R

Re.: Basic Recording, Editing and Exporting Tutorial The tutorial advises saving a project as a WAV file for future use, e.g., re-editing. Why can I not just save my unedited .aup project files and use those for the same purpose. Those get created when I make my recording and surely have all the dat...

The tutorial shows: Click Effect > Noise Reduction I think it should say "Noise Removal". If it's an on-line tutorial could you post a link and I'll check it out. file:///C:/Program%20Files%20%28x86%29/Audacity%201.3%20Beta%20%28Unicode%29/help/manual/noise_removal.html This is the link that shows ...

The tutorial shows: Click Effect > Noise Reduction
But, the beta has Noise Removal. Are they one and the same?
R

>>If you're sticking with lossless formats (WAV and Flac) then the discussion that followed (from ignatz's enquiry re. MP3's) can be ignored.<<

Thank you Steve (& Ignatz & Koz) for all your help. It has made my project so much more pleasant having the support of all you guys.

I have seen some barebones editors that can supposedly do a basic edit of an mp3 (cutting a segment, doing a fade) without recompression--allegedly, I say allegedly. MP3Split can do basic (cut and trim) editing on MP3 and Ogg files without decoding/re-encoding. http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3spl...

I did some experimenting and this seems to work. There may be a more elegant method. Split stereo track from the black arrow/triangle Put cursor in top channel Edit, move cursor to track start (cursor is now at beginning of top channel) Edit, select cursor to track end (top channel is now highlight...