I recorded a night of club music with Audacity on a notebook computer, saved it as a WAV file and imported it onto my desk computer. When I open the file there are red peak lines everywhere, while there were none on the original. Why would there be a difference?
Oldbear
Track different after importing
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Re: Track different after importing
Because one implementation of Audacity was set up to show clipping and the other wasn't?
When you zoom in on the red lines does the waveform show visible clipping (flat tops) or is the wave merely touching 0dB?
Final, and acid, test: what does it sound like on playback? Does it sound distorted?
When you zoom in on the red lines does the waveform show visible clipping (flat tops) or is the wave merely touching 0dB?
Final, and acid, test: what does it sound like on playback? Does it sound distorted?