Clean sweep all the way back to sing it again. That’s a terrible idea because if anything goes wrong, you could lose the current edit, the imported files and the original recordings. MP3 is an end product, not a step in the middle.Ī common New User mistake is to open your original sound files (voice recordings, songs), edit them and then save the corrections back to the original files. Much better Export a WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit file first as edit master and then, if you still need to, a MP3 so you can enjoy the work on the beach or mail it to someone.

MP3 creates sound damage and it gets worse every time you edit it. MP3 is one way to do that, but MP3 files make terrible edit masters. That gives you the ability to Save Projects but you need to separate the work from the project in order to make, or export, a sound file. Lame is a work-alike software package that you can add to Audacity to allow Exporting to MP3 without running into licensing conflicts.Īudacity is a production and project editor not a WAV editor. Because Audacity is free, we can’t “hide” the licensing fees in the purchase price.

Everybody can play MP3s, but making a new one is, or was until very recently, a paid license.

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