Audacity Forum

Can someone provide me with the best settings for:

Under Preferences/quality:
Default sample rate
Default sample format
Real-time sample rate converter
High-quality sample rate converter
Real time dither
High quality dither

Under Preferences/file formats:
Uncompressed Export Format
OGG quality

thanks
mike

The settings for the least fuss are the ones for a Music CD.

44100, 16-bit, Stereo

The best export format is Microsoft WAV.

The other default settings are either good to go for almost everything, or don't matter unless you're doing something wacky.

I personally would transition over to Audacity 1.3 as fast as I could go. You can put both on your machine as long as you only run one at a time. In 1.3, you can tune the Export step on the fly instead of having to do it in the Preference panels and the program isn't as unstable as the label would suggest.

Microsoft WAV format is accepted by Windows and everybody else across all three computing platforms. It doesn't damage the performance like MP3.

Koz

Thanks

Now I can finally begin listening to my Legendary Pink Dots albums with my cd walkman

hooray!