Audacity Forum

... recognizing them? I'm running audacity 1.3.12 on mac os x (version 10.6.3). Right now, I have the following in my preferences: * Make a copy of uncompressed audio files before editing * Always copy all audio into project What should I do? Thanks in advance.

... rename my configuration file, ummm i dont know where that is or what you mean, as ive never had to do that before. my import info is i have "read uncompressed" checked. the mixer board opens, there are no visible errors or anything weird looking nor sounding. it plays for a few secs, freezes, ...

... Before renaming your config file, open Preferences and look at the the Import tab--tell me if you are set to "Make a copy...(safer)" or "Read uncompressed...(faster)". To insure that it is not (and I doubt that it is) a configuration problem, rename your config file, it is found here on Win7: ...

For "ADPCM U-law CCITT 8 bit" select "Other Uncompressed Files" as the format in the Export Dialogue screen, then click on ...

... the 'Project Rate (Hz)' in the bottom left hand corner to 8000 of Audacity. Next select 'File' > ' Export' > Change the 'Save as type' to 'Other uncompressed files' (a bit misleading) > Then click 'Options' button (bottom right) > Select 'WAV (Microsoft)' for 'Header' and 'U-Law' for 'Encoding' ...

... to export an 18-byte fmt chunk when you choose "Other Uncompressed Files" with the "Options" set to Header: "WAV (Microsoft)" and Encoding: ...

WAV - uncompressed - (free) supported by Linux. Flac - lossless compression - about 50% of the size of WAV files at the same sound quality - (free) supported by Linux OGG Vorbis - compressed - Lossy - (free) supported by Linux ...

... has been converted to a lossy format it's best not to edit it ? Yes. At least, it's best not to edit it with Audacity. Audacity only works with uncompressed data, so if you import a compressed audio file into Audacity, it will be decoded into uncompressed audio data. No problem so far - decoding ...

Just recently I realized that there is some 'problem' while exporting to 24-bit WAV files. I was using 'Format:Other uncompressed files' and then selecting WAVE and 'signed 24 bit PCM' in the options dialog for export. unfortunately I didn't realize that there were clippings in the ...

... means that when audio is encoded into either of these formats there will be some loss of sound quality. Whenever possible it is best to work with uncompressed audio formats such as WAV. In Audacity 1.3.12 you can import both of the files - each will appear on it's own track. If you keep the files ...