A Couple of Recording Questions

[steve]

It would require someone on Windows testing to see if 24-bit recording testing to see if they can get 24-bit values with WASAPI.

For anyone that does want to test, Robert J. H. wrote a Nyquist script (that can be run in the Nyquist Prompt effect), that checks the actual bit-depth of the selected audio.

The latest version of the Nyquist snippet:

How to determine a track's Bit depth

Thanks again Robert. I think this snippet is still useful, so I’ve updated it for Audacity 3.x ;version 4 ;type analyze ;;; mix to mono if stereo (defun mono (sig) (if (arrayp sig) (sim (aref sig 0) (aref sig 1)) sig)) ;;; test against powers of 2 (defun bit-test (sig bits) (snd-maxsamp (integrate (diff sig (quantize sig (truncate (power 2 bits))))))) ;;; find the bit depth (defun bit-depth (sig) (let ((sig (mono sig)) (test-values '(10 11 20 23…

;version 4
;type analyze

;;; mix to mono if stereo
(defun mono (sig)
  (if (arrayp sig)
      (sim (aref sig 0) (aref sig 1))
      sig))

;;; test against powers of 2
(defun bit-test (sig bits)
  (snd-maxsamp 
    (integrate 
      (diff sig
        (quantize sig (truncate (power 2 bits)))))))

;;; find the bit depth
(defun bit-depth (sig)
  (let ((sig (mono sig))
        (test-values '(10 11 20 23 29 31)))
    (dolist (bits test-values)
            (if (= (bit-test sig bits) 0)
                (return bits)))))

;; run the test
(case (bit-depth *track*)
  (10 "8 bit unsigned")
  (11 "12-bit")
  (20 "16-bit integer")
  (23 "24 bit integer")
  (29 "30 bit compressed (mp3 etc.)")
  (31 "32-bit integer")
  (t "32 bit float"))