How to export 24 bit 48 kHz wav?

[Harry_O]

Hi,

Although my orginal, edited file is 24 bit/48 kHz, the
Audacity export menu won´t give this wav format as an option, just the 16 bit,
if I use this or the "other uncompressed file", the Audacity will lower the quality of my exported file.
I can´t find this in the preferencies eihter.

How come? Is there something I have missed or can this really be the case?

Harry

[waxcylinder]

On the export dialog box from the "Save as type" dropdown slect "Other uncompressed files" - the click on the Options button where you fhave two dropdowns: select Wav and 24-bit.

The 48kHz should follow from your Audacity project settings (assuming you have it set to record/edit in 48kHz).

WC

[Harry_O]

Thank you WC.
I suppose the sampling rate stays as original (48 kHz in my case) - for some reason in the Win 7
there aren´t any place you could check this, opposite the XP. Even the bit debth in the Win 7 is in the strange kbps-form.
BTW - do you happen to know any freeware audio file analyzer (which shows the type, bit debth and the sampling rate of the file? H.

[kozikowski]

Free download QuickTime for Windows can do that. Control-I Info Panel. That also gives you the ability to play any file type in the QuickTime library. I believe it also gives you full-frame video playback which I haven't be enable to do under Windows alone.

There's another Windows-only analysis tool I'm gong to have to search for, but that's a good start.

Koz

[steve]

QuickTime for Windows is on my personal "banned" list - it's monstrously huge and tries to take over as the default player for everything

There's another Windows-only analysis tool

SUPER by erightsoft.
It's an annoying link jungle to download it, but worth the effort.
It can not only give a detailed analysis of the format and codecs, but can also convert most media types into most other media formats (and it's free).

[Harry_O]

Free download QuickTime for Windows can do that. Control-I Info Panel. That also gives you the ability to play any file type in the QuickTime library. I believe it also gives you full-frame video playback which I haven't be enable to do under Windows alone.

There's another Windows-only analysis tool I'm gong to have to search for, but that's a good start.

Koz

Thank you for the hint - I hadn´t recon this feature before. H.

[Harry_O]

QuickTime for Windows is on my personal "banned" list - it's monstrously huge and tries to take over as the default player for everything

There's another Windows-only analysis tool

SUPER by erightsoft.
It's an annoying link jungle to download it, but worth the effort.
It can not only give a detailed analysis of the format and codecs, but can also convert most media types into most other media formats (and it's free).

The link is really well hidden - I wonder why they do this. Anyway, I had the QT player already installed but hadn´t noticed the file analyzer - but maybe I need the SUPER later (although this kind of downloading sites scares me). Thank you for the help. H.

[steve]

although this kind of downloading sites scares me

SUPER is very well known and not some dodgy malware. Virtually all of SUPER is open source - it's just their graphical interface that isn't.
I wish they didn't make the download so difficult, but since you're getting it for free ....
If you search Google you'll even find a couple of guides to downloading SUPER

[Thunderbolt1000T]

Windows Explorer can tell you what you need to know, at least in XP (I don't use Vista or 7 because they're full of problems.) Just go to My Computer, find the file you want to analyze, right click it, go to Properties, and go to the Summary tab, and what you need should be there. The only problem I have with this method, all be it a minor one, is that if the sample rate is 44.1 KHZ for example, it just says 44 KHZ, even though the file is actually 44.1 KHZ, but you'll still be able to tell if your sample rate and format were retained.

[Newrone]

GSpot - http://gspot.headbands.com/ - will give you info on any audio or video file. I use it all the time.

I've got only 48kHz files in my project, set to 48kHz (Preferences/Default sample rate), but it still only exports to 44kHz! Infuriating. I want to export to 48kHz.
Any ideas how to fix that?

SOLVED: I just noticed the "Project rate" box at the bottom left
Maybe an idea for Audacity developers would be for this to default to whatever sample rate ALL the individual files are in.