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Originally Posted by Dee8go
Anybody here have any experience with Audacity software? It is bundled with a number of analog to digital music products. The software is free and it's open source. I am looking at the optioins they have for the file formats created.
They have:
AUP - Audacity Project format
WAV - Windows Wave format
AIFF - Audio Interchange Format
Sun AU/NeXT format
MP3 - MPEG format
I have no idea which one would be the best to use or what the differences are. Anybody know something about these? My goal is to get my vinyl records converted and into I Tunes so I can put them on my I Pod.
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Oops...thanks for jogging my memory...Audacity is the software I purchased and use today!
Depending on what and where I plan to use the audio, the final transfer is either .wav or .mp3. I use .wav if I'm preserving something, like an eroding medium such as vinyl or tape.
The effects algorithms aren't "studio-quality", but are usable. For most of my in-a-hurry projects, they are pretty good.
Note that I do have a full-fledged studio, so if need be, I have processors available to clean up the source or tweak the final mix. But for most purposes, the audio degradation isn't discernable...