Audacity Forum

I guess WAV files are just for Windows? No, they're not. Audacity uses WAV as the default uncompressed file format because they're managed correctly and open in all three computer platforms. So you still have something seriously wrong. You are urged strongly to sort ...

... know that car applications on USB don't recognize them That's true. But, a good-quality MP3 is usually transparent (sounds identical to the uncompressed original in a proper, blind, level matched, ABX Listening Test ). And in a car (especially in a moving car) you are even less likely to ...

... from beginning to end. My track was 1 hour 54 minutes and 48 seconds My friends track was 2 hours 4 minutes 59 seconds If you listen to the uncompressed (without Speed Change) tracks, they are in sync and as time goes on they begin to drift further and further out of sync. This made for ...

Thanks for the reply.

I got it to work by saving in a headerless format (PGM Raw) in Gimp, then importing as Raw data, U-Law, Mono, and using Export audio > Other uncompressed files (which I couldn't find before!) > Header: Raw, Encoding: U-Law.

Here is a work-in-progress result:

... in this format." I'm selecting Export Audio / "Other uncompressed files" / SDS / Signed 8-bit PCM. Any suggestions?

... open in Audacity, giving me the following error message: Audacity could not recognize the type of the file '<path>'. Try installing FFmpeg. For uncompressed files, also try File > Import > Raw Data. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Audacity and reinstalled FFmpeg with both the .exe and finding ...

... sorry...is there a feature I might have overlooked in Audacity that lets you compare .wav samples? Exact Audio Copy lets me do that, but only with uncompressed 44.1kHz stereo WAVs, not files that were a different frequency and re-sampled to 44.1.

I assumed that exporting to signed 16-bit PCM uncompressed means that it doesn't do any, i'm not sure what you call it, maybe 'encoding' like mp3s would? MP3 (and similar) encode the audio data into a "compressed" format (which is why MP3 files ...

steve wrote: > I like the points that you make about > 1) Keeping high quality uncompressed versions of the recordings (this is > something that we highly recommend for most use cases) > 2) Linking to the audio files so that you can update the audio without > having ...

... have enough room on your drives? Audacity takes a lot of elbow room while it's working. How long is the show? Audacity saves the show in special uncompressed format that's larger than you think and in the course of production, does it multiple times. Do you use MP3s or other compressed files ...