Audacity and wma file

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Download Audacity 2. Audacity for Mac. What's new in Audacity 3. The FFmpeg software is not included when you download Audacity due to software patents. But you can download for free FFmpeg third-party library. Just take note that FFmpeg 2. Later versions of Audacity before 2. A window will pop up. Go to the directory of the WMA file you would want to convert. Choose a WMA file, highlight it and click the Open button. Audacity will then display the file as a wavelength bar on the main screen.

Go to File menu again, click on Export as MP3, then click OK on the pop-up window asking to mix the audio track to stereo. Click the Locations tab and select the drive or directory where you want to save your MP3 file. Then choose Save As and name your MP3 file. You can change some options before saving by clicking the Option tab. At the lower right corner, click on the Save button.

If you already have the FFmpeg plugin, then you're ready to convert. A window will be shown. Click the Locations tab and select the drive or directory where you want to save your WAV file. Then go to Format and select WAV files. Choose the location of the WAV file you wish to convert.

Then highlight the WAV file and click the Open button. Go to File menu again, click on Export as MP3 then click OK on the pop-up window asking to mix the audio track to stereo. The greatest thing about Audacity perhaps is being a free audio editor and recorder software. The rather downside of the matter is that it often crashes when used for a long period or when your audio is already longer than what it could handle.

If you are into reliability no matter how long your audio is, there are other alternatives. And even though you can use Audacity to convert audio from one format to another, the fact remains that Audacity is not a converter program. Therefore, quality is not as good as the original. It would be wise to use an application that will give you high quality audio.

There is a free version, but like all free software, it has limited features. It can give you the output in MP3 or M4V without having to install additional codecs or plug-ins.

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Zooming the waveform select the magnification icon from the panel at top left and click the waveform repeatedly to get the desired zoom level allows us to position the cursor very finely, determine the millisecond mark we need, and enter this into the Windows Media Editor.

Given that we can now find the marker points accurately, we can use Audacity to determine the millisecond values and enter these into the Windows Media Editor.

The advantage of this process is that it is lossless, in the sense that we have not converted the file to another format to achieve any of the goals. It started as a WMA and is still a WMA, and hopefully we have retained the original script points and the original quality, though because the WMA editor is proprietary we have no idea what manipulations were necessary. The Windows Media Editor is not clever enough to allow us to replace parts of the file, but Audacity can. With the WAV loaded into Audacity we can highlight very carefully, using magnification of the waveform as necessary, the part that offends.

A particularly useful feature in Audacity is that if we click and drag in the waveform to highlight one part of the wave and then click the Play button, only the selected portion will be played back. This is useful to make sure we have selected the right part of the file for replacement. Then from the menu, choose Generate, then Tone. When the dialogue window appears, accept the default values and simply click Generate Tone.

That replaces the word with the neutral sound. We can tweak the options to modify the replacement tone, but the defaults are quite acceptable. To avoid a click at the end of the tone-generated section use the cross fade out function four or five times in succession on the very end of the section.

After testing, normalizing, and exporting the revised file from Audacity, use the Windows Media Encoder, or, from a DOS prompt Command window after navigating to the encoder folder, issue the command:. There should not be any loss of quality, but we have made two conversions, so there may be some subtle changes.

Here is a copy of a sample WMA file , and a second file after insertion of a sine wave tone using the above procedure to mask the middle section.