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... to assure no loss (accessed by exporting "other uncompressed files" and selecting 32 bit and WAV in the options there). This was ...

... to assure no loss (accessed by exporting "other uncompressed files" and selecting 32 bit and WAV in the options there). This was ...

... in 32-bit float, File menu > Export > select "Other uncompressed files" as the file format then click on the "Options" button and ...

... say "burn stereo" that we make this change after 2.0. Click Edit > Preferences (Audacity > Preferences on a Mac computer) then File Formats tab: "Uncompressed Export Format" section, and choose WAV (Microsoft 16 bit PCM) or AIFF (Apple/SGI 16 bit PCM). In the current Audacity 1.3 Beta, do not ...

... of extra operations and memory required for importing and audio file into Audacity (a sound wave graphic must be created, a full copy of the uncompressed audio must be kept in memory/disk, etc). For those reasons (among others) Audacity is not an optimal audio file format converter. Alternative ...

If it's a WAV and if you have the "Read uncompressed audio files directly from the original (faster)" option selected in preferences I think that if you save a project it will actually overwrite the original final with the new data. No it doesn't. ...

If it's a WAV and if you have the "Read uncompressed audio files directly from the original (faster)" option selected in preferences I think that if you save a project it will actually overwrite the original final with the new data. No it doesn't. ...

... files safely (FLAC is a good format for this) Edit/process/mix/Eq/... each of the songs individually first and Export them as high quality (uncompressed) audio files - preferably WAV 32-bit float, but 16 bit WAV is OK. 32-bit float WAV files are huge, but this is just an intermediate step ...

... per sample Click on "Options" when you save as "other uncompressed files" and you can select to save as 8-bit depth WAV ... Audacity ...

... Did you import any WAV files into the projects? If so, what was the setting in Preferences, the File Formats tab, then under "When importing uncompressed audio files into Audacity"? Was it "Make a copy..." or "Read directly..."? Do you still have the Windows laptop to check this? If it was ...