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. 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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