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... of the main Audacity window, set the Project Rate to 8000. File menu > Export In the "Save as type:" drop-down, select "Other uncompressed files" Click on the "Options" button and select "WAV" as the "Header" and "A-Law" as the "Encoding". ...

... the word "meticulous", there will be a very small loss of quality (I mean, really tiny, and for most purposes insignificant) even with uncompressed data formats such as WAV, Flac and Aiff if the "bit format" is an integer type. Out of all the millions of Audacity users, someone ...

... message with a link to the zip file containing an unofficial 1.3.14 alpha version of Audacity. This adds support for FFmpeg export and "Other Uncompressed Files" export to Chains, and it also adds an explicit "ExportGSM" chain command for the "GSM 6.10 WAV (mobile)" ...

hankeje wrote:I need this capability for phone systems as well and would like this fix...

Do you explicitly want it for a Chain? You can already export 8-bit WAV without a Chain by choosing "Other uncompressed files" when you export, then click "Options".


Gale

... message with a link to a zip file containing an unofficial 1.3.14 alpha version of Audacity. This adds support for FFmpeg export and "Other Uncompressed Files" export to Chains. There are a couple of limitations as mentioned in my message. Gale

Export > Other Uncompressed Files > Options > Microsoft WAV, 32Float.

You need to be in Audacity 1.3 for anything to work right. Audacity 1.2 is no longer supported.

Koz

... It gives me an "err" message. In the audacity file itself I made sure to select 44100 as the project rate; saved it as "Other uncompressed files" type; and under Options, set header as AIFF and encoding as signed 16 bit. Other settings I chose while making the recording ...

... bit rate of the new file to be the same as the old file? At the moment you can't configure export parameters for any file format in a chain. For uncompressed PCM files like WAV, bit rate = (bit depth) x (sampling rate) x (number of channels). The sample rate ("project rate" bottom left ...

... final editing and export to MP3...as mentioned. So, one last thing... How do you suggest I do so? Go with 32-bit float and select "other uncompressed files" or whatever that option is...? And regarding the dither sample you provided in your last post - I figured the answer I gave ...

... one - without dither is definitely clearer with a sharper sound. So if I was exporting in 32-bit = the best option would be to select "other uncompressed files" as file type and select the 32-bit float? I'll give you an idea of what I usually do... For most of the audio I edit, the final ...