Audacity Forum

Never mind... I now realize I wasn't even using the word "downsample" correctly... (what's the word for changing bit depth, anyway?) And I figured out how to do this with SoX and it sounds fine to my ears. So I think I'm okay. But I won't delete my original post, just in case anyone has more interes...

... to write a shell script to turn a bunch of 24-bit FLAC files into VBR MP3 files with a particular quality setting. I'm thinking I should not use ffmpeg to do this in one step, because as Koz has said, it's best to downsample to 16 bits before encoding an MP3. So I'm thinking my first step should ...

... an audio file ("Audacity Projects" are NOT audio files) and can be WAV, MP3 (if Lame is installed), Ogg, Flac, Aiff and in recent version if ffmpeg is installed, a selection of other formats. There are various third part utilities that can be used for changing files from one format to another ...

... de la version 1.3.6, vous pourrez importer : WAV, AIFF, OGG, MP3 ET WMA. Vous pourrez de même exporter en WMA si vous avez installé la librairie FFmpeg et en MP3 (depuis longtemps) avec la librairie lame.dll 3.98 (pour les versions 1.3.6 et 1.3.7) et dans bien d'autres formats que vous découvrirez ...

... Audacity is the chipmunk effect when trying to import an unsupported file type. Although Audacity 1.3 now supports many more file types, thanks to ffmpeg, it is still easy to get caught out. Just because a file has been named " filename.mp3 " does not mean that it really is an MP3 file. Add to ...

... DIRECTEMENT votre fichier video dans Auda et l'extraction de la piste son se fera. Pourvu que vous ayez téléchargé et installé la librairie "FFmpeg" dans les Préférences, Import/Export d'Auda. Les videos .wmv, .mpg et .avi sont traitables. Attention cependant à la taille des videos ! Ce travail ...

... question.... (looks back through previous posts)... how to edit a WMA file? Yes. the latest version of Audacity supports WMA with the aid of FFmpeg (an additional program), but it is a very new feature and can be a bit tricky to set up. The easiest way to edit WMA files is to first convert ...

... started with an MP3 instead of a WAV file, those settings would produce gargly trash Well, I'm starting with a realplayer stream, opened using the ffmpeg decoder in Audacity. Let's so some examples: Here's a raw wav of the real stream, so you know how is sounds to begin with. It's a bit of speech ...

ffmpeg support was first introduced with Audacity 1.3.6 (hence the reason for a few glitches with it).
You will find the release notes here: http://audacityteam.org/download/features-1.3-a

This may be a lot more fun than I can deal with. I don't think all the 1.3 versions supported ffmpeg. You need to dig more in the install information and the FAQs.

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... mpeg&go=Go

I'm going to stand back here and watch.

Koz