Audacity Forum

... This adds support for FFmpeg export and "Other Uncompressed Files" export to Chains. There are a couple of limitations as mentioned ...

Hokay, of course I found "Other Uncompressed Formats" immediately after I posted. :oops: Welcome new user!! I do prefer to keep just the wav ...

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

... select 44100 as the project rate; saved it as "Other uncompressed files" type; and under Options, set header as AIFF and encoding as ...

... parameters for any file format in a chain. For uncompressed PCM files like WAV, bit rate = (bit ... a chain because there is no option to choose "Other Uncompressed Files" as an export format in a chain. If this is what you ...

... before running the plug-in). When "Mono" is selected as the output format, stereo files will be mixed down to mono. Append Import only supports uncompressed audio formats. The computer must have enough RAM for the entire import. As with all Generate plug-ins, if the tracks are imported without ...

... track. There is no error checking, so incorrect user input will fail, probably with no error message. I think that Nyquist only supports reading uncompressed formats, so I'll not be able to do anything about that particular constraint, but it should be possible to overcome the other limitations ...

... that, the trick is to use some dynamic compression.** (And you might need to re-normalize the peaks to -0.1dB again after compression.) WAV is uncompressed, so there is no quality loss (assuming the same sample rate & bit-depth as the original). And, just about anything will play WAV. The downside ...

... are trimmed very close to start/end of the audio. However if the files are in a compressed format such as MP3, note that: Audacity only works on uncompressed data, so the MP3 would be decoded (automatically) when it is imported. If you then either export as MP3, or export as WAV and re-encode ...

... I do so? Go with 32-bit float and select "other uncompressed files" or whatever that option is...? And regarding the dither sample ...