Importing Tracks Into Audacity

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stearman65
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Importing Tracks Into Audacity

Post by stearman65 » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:27 pm

When I rip tracks from a CD I do it as MP3 files. Am I doing it the wrong way for best quality. Should I import as WAV then convert to MP3 when exporting.
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Re: Importing Tracks Into Audacity

Post by waxcylinder » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:16 am

Basically yes- MP3 is a "lossy" compressed format, whereas WAV is uncompressed. So do rip as WAV, import into Audacity and do any necessary editing, then export to MP3.

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Re: Importing Tracks Into Audacity

Post by stearman65 » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:25 am

Thanks WC.
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