Audacity Forum

This is my first day using Audacity creating AIFF files from songs from a USB turntable. To my dismay, the file size for one track was a whopping 93 MB!!!! I tried exporting as a WAV file and got the same results. The AUB file was only 33 KB in comparison. I eventually want all my efforts to be transferred to my IPod. How can I get the file size down below 7-8 MB per track which is typical size?

Export as MP3 (requires LAME ) or AAC (requires FFmpeg ).

For details please read Exporting your Audacity Project into iTunes and iPod.



Gale

Personaly I would (and do) export WAVs from Audacity and then use iTunes to do the AAC conversions. For a start iTunes does the conversion about twice as fast as Audacity - and then there's no mucking about with the FFmpeg stuff.

See this workflow tutorial I wrote for the manual a while back: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Samp ... _to_iTunes

WC

The AUP file isn't sound. It's a text file with English-like words in it to control an Audacity internal format.

WAV and AIFF (Microsoft & Apple) are cousins of each other and are actual, real sound files. MP3 and AAC are compressed and damaged delivery files.

You can always start with a nice WAV file and go down to other formats, but you can't ever come back up from an MP3. If you decide to re-edit your MP3 (or AAC) for another device or service, the sound will be a much lower quality than either the original MP3 or the WAV files. So if you use MP3 once, that's the end of the line for your music collection.

Those of us with valuable libraries have collections of capture files in WAV (Usually) on archive disks and backups. When we need to "feed" one of our music players, we compress and process the perfect WAV files as needed.

Koz

Hi anyone:

I have just recorded some of my LP's onto a 700MB CD. But apparently, the size of the music files was larger, than could be accommodated on the CD.

Could anyone please tell me, how to determine the music file (.wav) sizes, so that I can gage them to fit onto a typical CD (700 MB).

Your advice would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

H.S.

About 10 MB per minute.