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Hi. First post. I scanned the topics and "read before posting" but I work six days a week (so I can't read everything) and I hope this is an appropriate question. Downloads of Lame and Audacity went fine and I just needed to cut some wav files, normalize and convert to mp3. Everything went smoothly, but after the conversion (always done last) there is some noise that is not on the wav file. Sounds like wind but the recording was done indoors. Not overwhelming, but definitely noticable. I saw a suggestion to export as wav to make it a "true" wav file before converting, so I tried that, but the final MP3 still as the noise. No other version that I worked with in Audacity has the noise, only the converted files.
Thanks in advance for any help.

MP3 compression always causes some sound damage and the smaller the files you need, the worse the damage. Try to increase the MP3 bitrate number in Audacity Preferences, restart Audacity, and try to export another MP3 of the show.

If you used MP3 music in your show, this could be interesting. Trying to make an MP3 out of another MP3 will create some serious damage. Stay way from MP3 files and music in your show. MP3 is a delivery format at the end of the process, not an editing or production format.

Koz

Worked like a charm at 256. Thanks so much.