Audacity Forum

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... that you 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 the ...

... that you 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.

... only a 64 MB file, you must have chosen "Other uncompressed files" and selected one of the compressed encodings, maybe a 4-bit ...

... 2 minutes (mono). You can do that using GSM 6.10 (a codec for mobile phone use). Using ADPCM encoding - which is 4-bit as opposed to 16-bit for uncompressed PCM WAV, hence the smaller file size - a 2 minute mono file at 44100 Hz will be around 2.5 MB. That's a little larger than a 128 kbps MP3 ...

... 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

... Analyse->Plot Spectrum View http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/ShannenName/320_plot.png Uncompressed WAV: Spectrum View http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/ShannenName/uncompressedwave-spectrum.png Analyse->Plot Spectrum View http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/ShannenName/uncompressedwave-plot.png ...