Audacity Forum

You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support . Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC in 1.3. If this is the case you have two basic options: 1. find and use some converter software to convert your file to a type that Audacity supports 2. play the file in an...

Hi Koz, when I first got my iPod I did extensive listening tests, but only with differnt AAC bitrates - I didn't think at the time to compare AAC/MP3 (silly me!). I ended up choosing 192 AAC as a compromise between quality and disk occupancy. My wife and I could both hear the difference on good spea...

kozikowski wrote: Apple AAC format is roughly twice as good as MP3 at any one bit rate.

Koz

Koz,

is it really that much better? I did know that bitrate for bitrate AAC is better than MP3 - but 100% better? If that's really the case then youv'e given me some work to do .......

WC

I did say "if you're lucky" - I can't do it from my onboard soundcard either. However I did solve this problem as my wife despeartely wanted a soundtrack song that is just totally unavailble on any album. Rather than using my PC's soundcard, I have an external USB soundcard (an Edirol UA-1...

Hi Mimi - yup, fast asleep zzzzzzzz.....

Glad you got it sorted.

WC

You should have a little drop-down selection box at the top right hand corner of the Audacity window. What you get in there is dependent on your souncard and it's drivers. If you're lucky one of those options should let you record from the DVD drive.

WC

kozikowski wrote: I'm not sure what happens if you have iTunes on your PC. In Mac land, that will take care of everything.

Koz

Yup, iTunes works a treat and will do this for you in the "wonderful" world of Windows/PCs too.

WC

Greenlight, Yes, I did this with my MDs. I use an external soundcard Edirol UA-1EX - this connects to the MD's SPDIF output with an optical "cable" via a 3.5mm optical jack that goes into the Edirol. The Edirol conects to the PC via it's USB plug. It worked a treat. I think you will find t...

Your iPod can play either WAVs or MP3s = you are likely to want MP3s as they occupy a lot less space - around 1/10 or so of the equivalent WAV file, Record the project in Audacity. Do any editing, breaking into tracks that you require. Then Export or Export Multiple (for multiple tracks) as MP3 at w...

Mimi I think that what you do then is use Audacity to Export your WAV files - and then find a another pice of software which will do the conversion from WAV to MP3 for you. A surf of t'interweb should yield something suitable (and probably free) - just try Googling "WAV to MP3", yields sev...