Anyway, I adjusted the pref. on the MacBook and exported. I got exactly the same size file whether I saved out of the original Audacity project or just opened the 32-bit WAV and then saved again. And that is the same as the size Windows Audacity made from the 32-bit WAV file. So it does appear to me that these files are all the same quality. And, honestly, it's hard to hear a difference in the 32-bit file. (The hiss from the turntable's needle is about the same I think.
)>>Any time you run music through Windows, it tries to use Windows Media and that's a compressed format. So that's the difference in file sizes. Data compression creates smaller music files at the expense of quality.
But I never did save from any software but Audacity, Koz. The two different sizes were out of Mac & Windows versions of Audacity. And we now know why. The prefs where set differently.
>>Current Time is where you are in the song
Strange thing to save. But who am I to argue?
And, sorry about the tiff. I realize it's not the web's lingua franca and didn't think about displaying in the browser. I'll do better next time.
Again, thanks. Audacity is just as nice as everyone was saying when I first heard about it; and I'm glad to have it on both machines. And you guys were wonderfully helpful in no time flat.
Jeanne