Scratch

go to the audacity site and look up LAME for audaucity.  if you has a mac, this will not work.  i think scratch can open audaucity files though

CheckItNow12 wrote:

SeptimusHeap wrote:

CheckItNow12 wrote:

So I Just got audacity. I Made an edited version of a song, but it won't let me save it!
HELP!

File > Export

I tried, didn't work.

LAME works for Mac as well 

What do you mean it won't let you? Details would help.

What format are you exporting as?

CheckItNow12 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

CheckItNow12 wrote:

I tried, didn't work.

LAME works for Mac as well 

What do you mean it won't let you? Details would help.

What format are you exporting as?

Trying to save as MP3, What popped up said:
Could not open MP3 Encoding Library!

Download LAME codec, save it to the desktop, go to preferences and find where it says locate LAME codec and choose the file you saved to your desktop.

I think the latest beta Audacity comes preloaded with LAME 

What fungirl said.

If you REALLY want mp3, change the import options in iTunes, drag your WAV file in there, right click, and select "Convert to mp3..."

Works like a charm.

jji7skyline wrote:

Vista4563 wrote:

What fungirl said.

If you REALLY want mp3, change the import options in iTunes, drag your WAV file in there, right click, and select "Convert to mp3..."

Works like a charm.

If you want lossless, you can always use AIFF although it makes a huge file 

*cough*flacisawesomeandhalfthefilesizeofaiffandwaveventhoughitslosslessanditunescantuseitbutitunessucksfoobar2000orvlc4evur*cough*

Dorn it, I really need some cough drops.

Yeah I know that iTunes isn't a very good music handler.

That's why I have Songbird xD

67589jun wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

If you want lossless, you can always use AIFF although it makes a huge file 

*cough*flacisawesomeandhalfthefilesizeofaiffandwaveventhoughitslosslessanditunescantuseitbutitunessucksfoobar2000orvlc4evur*cough*

Dorn it, I really need some cough drops.

Nope, .ogg is best.

.ogg is abstract
not a lot of programs support it though
although it's a pretty good compression algorithm

jji7skyline wrote:

schnrfl wrote:

67589jun wrote:

Nope, .ogg is best.

.ogg is abstract
not a lot of programs support it though
although it's a pretty good compression algorithm

What about Apple Lossless? You can't beat losslessness 

but but apple
sorry, nope

veggieman001 wrote:

FLAC is best. It's lossless, which means higher quality than .ogg, and it's a free format unlike the proprietary Apple Lossless. Also, FLAC files are a bit smaller than ALAC ones.

What does FLAC stand for? I'll have a look at it. I'm always having to send my teachers mp3 files and they can get pretty large unless I compress them a lot which makes it lose quality 

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

FLAC is best. It's lossless, which means higher quality than .ogg, and it's a free format unlike the proprietary Apple Lossless. Also, FLAC files are a bit smaller than ALAC ones.

What does FLAC stand for? I'll have a look at it. I'm always having to send my teachers mp3 files and they can get pretty large unless I compress them a lot which makes it lose quality 

Free Lossless Audio Codec
Also, they're much larger than mp3s, because they're lossless. What bitrate are the mp3s you're sending?

I think usually 128 or 256 but recently I had to send one as even less because the file size was so large. The school emails they give the teachers have a 3MB attachment limit 

I like Gmail because its attachment limit is 25MB 

RedRocker227 wrote:

What file are you exporting as? I think you only need LAME for mp3, not wav.

Most people export as MP3 though.

Just a note, I'm using Windows 7.