Audacity Forum

q1: how do I get rid of the shadow around the waveform in the display? looks in the prefs and didn't see anything that would change this
q2: is there a way to see the bit depth as well as the sample rate of a project in the lower bar?
- later edit: I see that each track has a bit depth but I'm assuming the project doesn't have a global bit depth...?
q3: why doesn't audacity read and write 24 bit aif files?
thanks in advance
KC

<<<q3: why doesn't audacity read and write 24 bit aif files?>>>
We think that is an actual programming error. It mostly affects Macs. We hope a lot of these errors vanish in the new version 1.4.

q2: is there a way to see the bit depth as well as the sample rate of a project in the lower bar?
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg
Both numbers are there on the left-hand panel.

<<<q1: how do I get rid of the shadow around the waveform in the display? >>>
There is no shadow. Can you look at Audacity on a different computer?

Koz

kozikowski wrote:<<<q3: why doesn't audacity read and write 24 bit aif files?>>>
We think that is an actual programming error. It mostly affects Macs. We hope a lot of these errors vanish in the new version 1.4.

OK..also when I open a 24 bit file Audacity converts it to 32 bit float

q2: is there a way to see the bit depth as well as the sample rate of a project in the lower bar?
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg
Both numbers are there on the left-hand panel.

right but it seems the Project Rate is indicated on the lower left hand side of the panel bar
isn't there also a Project Resolution? 8bit, 16bit, 24bit etc?

<<<q1: how do I get rid of the shadow around the waveform in the display? >>>
There is no shadow. Can you look at Audacity on a different computer?
Koz

there are two different shades to the waveform in Audacity - this is called 'shadowing' in Peak and can be turned off
is there a way to turn this effect 'OFF' in Audacity?
also, does the lighter shade indicate the RMS of the waveform?

anechoic wrote:right but it seems the Project Rate is indicated on the lower left hand side of the panel bar
isn't there also a Project Resolution? 8bit, 16bit, 24bit etc?

There is a "default recording resolution" bit depth that you set up in Preferences, but Audacity does not really care what bit depths are used on individual tracks - it will handle tracks with different bit depths at the same time. Internally Audacity works at 32 bit (float) regardless of the bit depth of individual tracks.