Audacity Forum

... If I take the same pcm file and use MS Sound recorder to convert it, the application plays it just fine. When I export I am selecting "other uncompressed files"; then clicking "options" and selecting "WAV (microsoft)" as the header and "u-law" as the encoding. ...

... If I take the same pcm file and use MS Sound recorder to convert it, the application plays it just fine. When I export I am selecting "other uncompressed files"; then clicking "options" and selecting "WAV (microsoft)" as the header and "u-law" as the encoding. ...

... WAV at 44100 Hz (Audacity's default) . Subsequent to all this, it was a complete surprise for me to find WAV was also hiding under the "Other uncompressed files" file type! It never entered my head to look under "other uncompressed files" since WAV and FLAC were already present ...

... after loading e.g. in the title bar.) Subsequent to all this, it was a complete surprise for me to find WAV was also hiding under the "Other uncompressed files" file type! It never entered my head to look under "other uncompressed files" since WAV and FLAC were already present ...

... on the details of what happened. Pretty obviously, the explicit WAV and AIFF options say 16-bit. So are you saying that you chose Other Uncompressed Files, then assumed that would give you 32-bit because that is how Audacity 1.2 was set up? From some tests that I did it appeared that ...

... has a note saying that the quality options are on the export dialogue options button, 2) >16 bit wav is only available by selecting "other uncompressed files" - I'd never thought of looking there It's too late for me to go back and re-rip hundreds of discs so hopefully this sorry tale ...

... can choose from a list of common extensions in the "Save As type" drop-down box, or else specify your own extension by selecting 'other uncompressed files'. I think that I see where the confusion is coming from. When you select a "file type" to export your audio, you are selecting ...

... can choose from a list of common extensions in the "Save As type" drop-down box, or else specify your own extension by selecting 'other uncompressed files'. This all seems fine to me.

... TCB's original file wasn't a 16-bit PCM (uncompressd) WAV. If TCB exported as WAV and produced only a 64 MB file, you must have chosen "Other uncompressed files" and selected one of the compressed encodings, maybe a 4-bit one which would make a mono file something like the size you suggest. ...

... to make your production and effects invisible. Unfortunately, it tries to export your work that way, too. In Audacity 1.3, you can Export Other Uncompressed files and change it to what you want. I think you can also change the Audacity Preferences so it stays 16-bit the whole way through. Koz