Re: Sample bitdepth is 24, but audacity says 32

[Gale_Andrews]

@Tagirijus

I am new in this forum and I wanted to thank the developers of Audacity for this great tool. Unfortunately I will beginn my forum-activity with a question (or even maybe a “bugreport”?) …

I have a 24 bit Wave File. I exported this file with my musicsoftware FL Studio and set the bitdepth to 24 bit. I loaded it into VLC Player and checked the codec information: it says 24 bit. Now when I am loading it into Audacity 2.0.4 it says 32 bit float. I also already changed the quality settings to 24 bit standard. Am I doing something wrong, or is this some kind of a bug?

No you are not doing anything wrong, Audacity has decided to always import 24-bit files at 32-bit resolution instead of 24-bit - even if default sample format (Quality Preferences) is 16-bit or 24-bit. See https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/change-dither-to-none-in-quality-settings/30777/11 . This contrasts to seemingly more expected behaviour for FLAC https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/change-dither-to-none-in-quality-settings/30777/14 .

I know of no necessary reason to always import 24-bit files as 32-bit, so you can request it be changed and we’ll count your vote towards it…


Gale

[Gale_Andrews]

@Tagirijus

Would I have to open a new topic just for this vote, or how else could I vote?

I’ll see your vote is counted - the votes are kept at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Feature_Requests but you need to request a Wiki account to edit the Wiki.

If you want to vote for other features on that Feature Requests list, please write to our feedback address .



Gale

[Shaky]

@Gale Andrews

I know of no necessary reason to always import 24-bit files as 32-bit, so you can request it be changed and we’ll count your vote towards it…

+1 please