Topic: Need some help with audacity (resample/dither)

[mikeincharleston]

so i've been messing around on the archive and can't find my answer.  i downloaded a zorn masada show and when i drop a track in audacity it appears to be 32bit float and 48k.  i've been messing around and i see you can right click on the track where it says "track 1 and has a little down arrow".  there is a sample button and a bit rate button.  so...

1.  change the bit to 16 and then the sample to 44.1.  exported wav.  didn't work
2.  change the bit to 16.  export to wav.  drop new wave back in.  change sample to 44.1.  exported wav.  made the wave a minute longer.
3.  should i do the sample to 44.1 export.  then drop in new wave and then change bit rate to 16 and export again?  i haven't done this yet cause i thought you chnage bit first and i figued i'd just ask you guys before i keep screwing up.

mike

[rowjimmy]

iirc, you can set the preferred sample rate and such in preferences.

[mikeincharleston]

i mentioned this in another topic a while back and it seemed to work last time, but this time.  it is changing the bit to 16, but it's still staying at 48k.

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.

[mikeincharleston]

it was posted that this may be a mono recording (which didn't even think of).  how does that change how i convert it?