Topic: Audacity Question Or Two...

[gormenghast]

Using Audacity to transfer my dats I recorded in years past.  Some i might have recorded in 48khz.  Do's Audacity automatically change the sample rate to 44.1?  I see a couple of things on the screen.  Where i see waveforms I see "Stereo, 44100Hz 32-bit float".  Lower left hand I see "Project Rate ( Hz ) 44100", and in the lower right hand I see "Actual Rate: 44100"  I might have a question or two later.

Thanks.

[rhinowing]

go to preferences > quality and set the bit depth and sampling rate that you want BEFORE opening your file -- audacity will convert if not

[gormenghast]

go to preferences > quality and set the bit depth and sampling rate that you want BEFORE opening your file -- audacity will convert if not

Thanks.  Bit depth is known.  Just not sure of the sampling rate.  I'm thinking I recorded in 48kHz, but not entirely sure.  I'm using a Sony D10ProII to play back the dats.  Hosa AES->optical into a Mac Mini.   I'm wondering if there is a way to determine the sampling rate before I start the transfer.

[kindms]

go to preferences > quality and set the bit depth and sampling rate that you want BEFORE opening your file -- audacity will convert if not

This has not been my experience.

Audacity in my experience correctly reads the sample rate etc. The project rate is what it will export at, the actual is the what was read from the file. I have never had audacity change that.

It defaults to 44.1 in the project so if you don't remember to change that prior to exporting it will resample but I have never seen it doing it on open/import.