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Title: Audacity Dither&Resampling Question
Post by: L Ron Hoover on November 11, 2005, 11:19:03 PM
Is it OK to do both at the same time?
Title: Re: Audacity Dither&Resampling Question
Post by: Brian Skalinder on November 12, 2005, 04:30:27 PM
As long as Audacity resamples first, then dithers...yes.
Title: Re: Audacity Dither&Resampling Question
Post by: mikeincharleston on November 13, 2005, 07:22:30 PM
sorry for the highjack, but i have a similar question.   i just got audacity to dither something to 16 bit.  it was already at 44 so i just need to dither.  anyway i figured out how to get it to 16 bit, but my question is...

you go file>preferences>quality.  you set the rate to 44, the format to 16, but then there is...

1. real time sample rate converter: high quality or fast sinc (i chose high quality)
2. high quality sample rate converter: high quality or fast sinc (i chose high quality)
3. real time dither: none, rectangle, triangle, shaped (i chose none).  this is what confused me and there was no explaination of what the choices ment in the help section
4. high quality dither: none, rectagle, triangle, shaped (i chose shaped).  again i have no idea what the difference is, no explaination in the help section.

i set it all to this and exported the files to wav.  compared them to the 24/44 and they sound fine, just want to make sure i didn't do something wrong before i burn them.