Audacity Forum

I do a lot of recording and editing in Audacity, and I compress my projects as an .ogg file. I use .ogg because almost every programme on my computer can recognize it. I loaded Audacity and edited a song, clicked the "Export" button and it saved the song as a normal "File" that none of my programmes can read.

I am using version 1.3.8 (.8) because I needed to use the FFmpeg library for a few things. (In my opinion, 1.3.8 has more bugs and problems than 1.3.6 (.6) (the better version that I used).)

With version .6 I could just click the "Save compressed copy of project" and it will compress it to an .ogg with no problem. Now with v.8 I need to go down to export and find .ogg in the list, and now it won't compress to a file that my other programmes can read. If I go to "Save compressed copy of project" in .8 then it will save as an .aup.

For a while I haven't had any problems with .8, but now it won't compress to .ogg. Is there something wrong with Audacity or my computer? Or my settings?

Use "Save Compressed Copy of Project" if you want an Audacity Project with the audio tracks in Ogg format, and use "Export" if you want a single Ogg file.