Convert mp3 to wav file audacity: What you need to know

This wikiHow teaches you how to convert an MP3 audio file into a WAV audio file. This is useful if you have a video or a radio program in need of an audio file that won't lose quality. You can convert an MP3 file into a WAV file on any Windows or Mac computer by using Audacity or iTunes, both of which are free programs. You can also use a free online converter if you don't have access to Audacity or iTunes.

This article will show you how to convert a MP3 audio file to a WAV format compatible with Case CATalyst. After the file has been converted, you can use the Associate Audio and EZ Sync features in CATalyst to play the audio with your job.

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Want to convert an MP3 to a WAV? With Audacity, it's easy! And this clip will show you just how it's done. Whether you're new to computer recording, new to the Audacity DAW (digital audio workstation) or just looking to pick up a few new tricks, you're sure to benefit from this video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video Audacity lesson.

Begin by clicking on File and select Open. Locate the file that you want to convert and click Open. Once the files has been imported, click on File once again and select Export. Type in any information data for the file and click OK. Now type in the file name, saving destination and set the format to WAV. Finish by clicking on Save and wait for the file to finish exporting.

You can choose any location for the export such as a "Music" folder on your Desktop or even the Apple Music/iTunes "Music" folder if you have one. However you must still import this file from the exported location into the Apple Music/iTunes Library.

You can export files from Audacity directly to your Apple Music/iTunes library. Exporting a file to the following locations will cause Apple Music/iTunes to automatically place it in the Music section of your library. You can then play the audio on your computer with iTunes or add it to your iPhone, iPad or iPod

To avoid losing your files, do *not* delete the exported files from the location you exported them to, unless you have already gone to Edit > Preferences > Advanced in iTunes, or Preferences > Files in Apple Music. and enabled the "Copy files to iTunes/Music Media folder when adding to library" option.

AAC is the default format set in Apple Music/iTunes and the format Apple uses for audio files sold from the Apple Music/iTunes Store, so is the most obvious choice if you solely use Apple products. MP3 should be considered if you think that in the future you may wish to switch to an alternative portable music player or phone. If you have plenty of storage space on your device or a relatively small music library you may wish to consider the larger lossless WAV or AIFF formats.

There are several advantages to using a compressed format on iPods and iPhones. The two main benefits are that you can fit many more songs into the device (for 256 kbps files you can fit about 10 times as many songs) and compressed files improve battery life, because disk reads are relatively heavy on battery power.

If you want a perfect lossless copy of your audio, or to burn it in Apple Music/iTunes to an audio CD for playing on any CD player, you should choose WAV or AIFF. It is strongly recommended you export a standard "CD quality" 44100 Hz, 16-bit stereo WAV or AIFF to make sure Apple Music/iTunes understands the file. This means:

If you want to distribute your files on the Internet (for example as a podcast), you should choose MP3 as the Format in the Export dialog, as this is a space-saving (although slightly lossy) format that anyone should be able to play.

If you want to put the files on an iPod, or simply store them in Apple Music/iTunes in a compact form, MP3 is also a good choice. However, there are some reports that when run on battery, recent iPods can struggle or crash when playing MP3s created in applications other than Apple Music/iTunes. So you may want to export as WAV or AIFF from Audacity and convert the files to MP3 in Apple Music/iTunes instead.

AAC is useful for iPhone/iPod or storage in Apple Music/iTunes due to its small file size and reduced disk occupancy, particularly if you have an iPhone or iPod with a small disk. The minimum bit rate setting you should use for music is 160 kpbs though 256 kbps is probably to be preferred and in use on an iPhone or iPod is unlikely to be distinguishable from WAV or AIFF (or Apple Lossless).

Apple Lossless Encoding (sometimes referred to as ALAC - Apple Lossless Audio Codec) is also an Apple proprietary format. Apple Lossless is, as the name suggests, Apple's size-compressed lossless codec. Like AAC it also uses files with the M4A extension.

Apple Lossless Encoder is quite similar to FLAC, producing larger files than AAC or MP3 but smaller than WAV. Typically an Apple Lossless file is around half the size of an equivalent WAV file and more than three times the size of an equivalent AAC 256 kbps file.

Audio CDs always contain uncompressed PCM stereo audio at 44,100 Hz sample rate, 16-bit sample format. So to burn an audio CD, export the file(s) you want to burn as a 44,100 Hz 16-bit stereo WAV or AIFF file.

If you are exporting a long Audacity track that contains multiple songs, please see "Splitting a recording into separate tracks" for how to export multiple files for each of the songs by using labels to identify songs for the Export Multiple command to operate on.

You can also use a standalone Windows burning application like CDBurnerXP, Deep Burner or Nero (or Burn or Toast for Mac) to burn your exported files. Most Linux distributions include Brasero or K3B for CD burning. When using standalone burning applications, open the files from within that software, do not drag and drop them from your file manager. Once again do not forget to select the setting to burn an "Audio CD" or "Music CD" as explained above.

Even if you use Audacity's Metadata Tags editor to add metadata such as Title, Artist and Genre to your exported WAV files, that metadata does not get automatically burned to the CD. You can set Apple Music/iTunes and some other burning applications (but not Windows Media Player) to burn metadata to each track as separate CD-Text. Providing your CD burner supports CD-Text, a standalone CD player that supports CD-Text will then be able to display each track's metadata.

Additionally, make sure you do not export MP3 files for burning to your gapless CD, even if you are burning a "data CD", because MP3s have inherent silence padding due to a restriction of the MP3 format.

An alternative solution is to not split the track up at all in Audacity. The best way to get apparently gapless playback of a live concert recording or live album is to burn as one WAV file with with DAO and a "cue sheet" that marks the starting times of each CD track. Cue sheets can be created as simple plain text files.

Audacity cannot currently export Cue Sheets but it is possible to use the File > Export > Export Labels... command to export a text file representing the label positions, then on Windows and Linux use label2cue to convert the minutes and seconds data in the text file to minutes, seconds and frames data laid out in cue sheet format.

For example, burning MP3 files to a 700 MB data CD (sometimes called an "MP3 CD"), and using Audacity's default 128 kbps MP3 export bit rate gives over 11.5 hours playing time. But if 64 kbps MP3 bit rate was chosen (either in "MP3 Export Setup" in the File Formats tab of Preferences, or Options at time of export) about 23 hours of audio would fit on the CD. Note that the penalty of reducing the bit rate would be reduced sound quality (especially so for music but less so for speech).

The objective of this tutorial is to learn how to edit an audio file. To achieve this objective, we are going to import an existing sound file, remove all but 10 seconds of this file, apply a 1-second fade-out at the end, export the results, and play it in your favorite audio player. These steps will introduce the basic steps commonly used when editing the contents of an audio file.

Audacity can import many common audio file formats, including WAV, AIFF, and MP3. If the optional FFmpeg library is installed, a larger range of formats, including WMA and the audio content of most video files, can be imported. Audacity cannot import copy-protected music files.

If you want to edit music that you have on an audio CD, you need to "rip" the music into an audio file. See the Audio CDs page for information on getting the audio off of CDs and into Audacity.

This image above shows a stereo waveform. The left channel is displayed in the top half of the track and the right channel in the bottom half. The track name takes the name of the imported audio file ("No Town" in this example). Where the waveform reaches closer to the top and bottom of the track, the audio is louder (and vice versa).

DC offset can occur in audio files so that the recorded waveform is not centered on the horizontal line at 0.0 amplitude. It can be caused by recording with a faulty audio interface. The example above is centered on 0 correctly and carries no DC offset. If your waveform is not centered, see the Normalize page for how to use Normalize to remove DC offset and how to check if your Windows sound device can perform this correction automatically.

If you make a mistake, you can always click on Edit > Undo. Audacity has unlimited Undo and Redo. You can undo your editing actions all the way back to when you imported the file. You can also Redo actions that you have undone. 2ff7e9595c