.aup3 is it lossless?

[tgchan]

Hello,

Is the .aup3 file lossless in Audacity? If I Save Project in Audacity, all data will be preserved no matter how many times I save it, right?

I am 99% sure, but I would like to make sure I am not missing something/

I also got scared a little because of this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/audacity/comments/13dkzlp/comment/jjlap3b/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

But I have not changed anything in the settings so I should be good, right?

[mac-christian]

.aup3 is not a sound format, it is an “Audacity Project” file which contains everything - the sound, your modifications, etc.

You should export your sound file(s) in a lossless format.

[DVDdoug]

Yes. It uses 32-bit floating-point.

If you don’t want ANYTHING changed you need to open/import a lossless format and save as a lossless format with the same sample rate and bit-depth. And turn OFF dither.

…And if you aren’t changing anything, you probably don’t need an AUP3 project.

[tgchan]

Oops. I guess I wasn’t clear enough, sorry about that

I am using it as my musical sketchbook for demos. I love it a lot and didn’t want to move to a DAW.

I am creating a clicktrack in it, record guitar 1, then guitar 2 and vocal is 3, so 4 tracks total. That’s it.

I mix it then and export in .WAV for later purposes.

Between the final export I have recorded, added other tracks, adjusted volumes (mixed) and saved the project a lot.

I know jpegs, mp3, etc. lose quality with every save and even though I am pretty sure AUDACITY wouldn’t do me that dirty xD

but I would rather ask to make sure ;p

So to clarify, I recorded a few tracks, adjusted volumes, panned left/right and saved it like x80 times to my project as aup3

FILE>Save Project

None of the tracks lost any data, right?

I wasn’t adding any effects or anything that could get baked in.

One more question:

Tracks > Mix > [Mix and Render to New Track]

Is it lossless (I know it is NOT an audio file ;p)? Does it only glue tracks together without any data loss in the process?

Some people export their tracks to .WAV first and then continue to work on them (limiters, normalization, compressor, etc.)

but I just used:

Tracks > Mix > [Mix and Render to New Track] and continued working on that newly created track by adding some things like compression, limiter, etc.