Audacity Forum

... the music with the goal of making the files much smaller. The cheapest MiniDV Camcorder for sale at the electronics 7-Eleven has two channels of uncompressed 48000/16, and is, by the way, not always a dreadful way to capture a live sound performance. Import in iMovie and export the sound channels.

... into copying all source files by going to "Edit > Preferences > Audio Files" and select the "safe" options. If moving a project from one computer ... in the process. In contrast to this, Exporting as WAV or AIFF produces uncompressed "normal" audio files that can easily and safely be moved from ...

Hi all, I've got a couple of questions about the above; any answers would be appreciated. I was surprised to discover that 1.3beta allows you to add metadata to .wav files. Mainly because I didn't think this was possible - I didn't think wavs (unlike, say, mp3s) had anywhere to carry such data! Am I...

... "a few milliseconds" and "about 1 second". As you will know, mp3 is a "lossy" compression format, and it is not an "exact" copy of the original (uncompressed) audio. When a WAV file is encoded as an mp3, about 25 milliseconds of silence are added to the beginning of the file. This is not due ...

... Agreement. Some modifications will violate your agreement and Apple will not honor your free service. As above. Microsoft Windows WAV format is uncompressed and completely undamaged. The files are huge, but there is no harm to the sound by using this format. WAV format quality is chosen at the ...

... as wav and convert to mp3 later. That's correct - every time you compress audio to mp3 there will be some loss of quality. You should work with uncompressed files whenever possible and only convert to mp3 as the final step (if you need it as an mp3). It is often a good idea to keep a backup ...

... it Audacity. I drag that into my /Applications folder along with all the other applications. Then I take all the files I got when I unzipped or uncompressed the program download and dump them in that folder. That puts the application, the Plug-Ins folder and all the rest of the stuff all in ...

... much better results with the SC4 than with the standard Audacity compressor. Using a "soft knee" setting will give a more gentle transition from uncompressed low level signals, to heavily compressed high level signals and will sound more natural. Also, using the "RMS" setting rather than "peak" ...

<<<How do I get the .wav file to a manageable size? >>> Let's do that one first. You don't. Windows WAV format is a perfect quality, uncompressed format that can be used as archival storage. It doesn't have a "size" or "compression" slider like the other formats do. It just is. Because of ...

... electronics which is highly unusual. After the Preamp and processing of the entertainment system, everything else is digitally manipulating uncompressed audio files and I would expect the results to be excellent. What are you using for a video signal? I'm not sure what our burners would ...