High pitched scratchy sound after importing mp3

but I think theres a glitch in the converting process on that website currently.

Somebody else had a [u]similar problem[/u] but with different symptoms.

Audacity’s MP3 decoder is more “picky” than most audio players.

I downloaded the free hip hop instrumental directly from the producers website

That’s a good idea…

MP3 is lossy compression and YouTube uses a different format (also usually a lossy format). So depending on what format the person originally uploads it MAY have already gone-through two generations of lossy compression by the time you watch the YouTube video.

If the 3rd-party website converts to MP3, that’s another generation of lossy compression. Then if you re-save as MP3 after editing that’s another generation of lossy compression…