Just so we don’t get too lost. Computers work in 32-bit or 64-bit instructions. That’s a Windows internal thing. That’s Operating System efficiency and computer code processing. It has nothing to do with sound. Applications can work faster and with better efficiency if they can speak 64 bit, but it’s not required.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15056/windows-7-32-64-bit-faq
Sound is hacked up into tiny individual chunks for recording and processing and each of those chunks has a description such as 16-bit, 44100, Mono. In fuzzy description, the bit depth (16-bit) is distortion and the sample rate (44100) is crisp fidelity.
16-bit, 44100, Stereo is the Audio CD format.
16-bit, 48000, Stereo is the digital television format.
24-bit, 96000, Mono is the format you might use to record Adele.
32-bit Floating, 44100 is the format generally used inside Audacity so that effects and processing don’t accidentally destroy the sound.
I think you’re about to bump into a Frequently Requested Feature. Audacity doesn’t have Clip INFO. Doesn’t matter how hard you try, Audacity will not tell you what kind of sound file you have.
Macs have Get INFO which will tell you stuff…
…and the Windows people can download and use Media INFO.
http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
If you do that, download the application directly, not the installer.
Nothing like everybody speaking the same numbers and descriptions.
Koz