IIRC it was a developer that wrote that line in the Manual (it may even have been Steve) not me as the principal editor - it’s not something that I would have written - a bit above my nerd-gradeīut basically I endorse what Steve said in his reply. The single file format is much better suited to sharing and sending to others than the old “pile of files” format, so I’m hoping it won’t be too long before we get lossy compressed AUP3 projects, but don’t hold your breath - it will require a lot of work. That’s basically why it hasn’t been implemented in 3.0.0.Īudacity 3.0.1 will be released soon, and because it is such a short release cycle there will be few if any new features in it (just fixes and enhancements based on user feedback from 3.0.0). I expect that it is possible to implement (lossy) compressed AUP3 projects, and to implement it better than the old format, but it not straightforward and will probably require a significant amount of developer time (plus testing and documentation). Implementation must cover edge cases as well as common use. While that is plenty big enough for most projects, it shouldn’t blow up if someone is working with a huge project. For one thing, the maximum size of a blob is 1 GB (default, with an absolute limit of 2 GB). Implementing the old style (OGG) compressed project is complicated for the new AUP3 format. Audacity 3.x writes “blobs” into the database rather than “au” files into a folder.
AMID PUBLIC DATA FROM USERS AUDACITY ZIP
See why the ZIP suggestion is useless and the “Save compressed copy” needs to be reinstated?Īudacity puts its data in AU files (I’m presuming v3 still does) Yes, the ZIP is lossless…but it’s also impossibly huge to share. Taking the AUP3 file and ZIPping it also took about 10 minutes on my Surface Book 3. It took about 10 minutes on my Surface Book 3. Using Audacity 2.4.1 to export as a compressed file. Zipping these files gains only a few percent of disk space…and takes forever to do. But ZIP doesn’t work worth a dang when dealing with multimedia file types. Take a nice TXT file–ZIPping it will make it maybe 5% of the original size. ZIP has different results based on file type. Now you talk about using a ZIP utility…ZIP takes files and looks for repeated parts to shrink them. This down-converting to the lossy format would turn a 3GB file into a 300MB file. As reported by FOSS Post, the addition of several data collection mechanisms turn Audacity into possible spyware, as personal information (see below) can now be shared with law enforcement. Yes, a bit of quality was technically lost but it was imperceptible to my ears. The old “Export Compressed Copy” would convert the au files to lossy OGG files. The Audacity devs are really, really smart so they must know better than to suggest that as a reasonable alternative.Īudacity puts its data in AU files (I’m presuming v3 still does). I read that line in the manual and I don’t understand why that’s in the manual because we’re talking apples and oranges.
This also carefully mentioned on The “What’s New…” page for 3.0.0 You can losslessly compress an AUP3 project with standard utilities such as ZIP, WinZip or 7-Zip.
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