Re: [Audacity-quality] http://download.cnet.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html#rateit

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Richard Ash <ri...@au...> 
| Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:43:19 +0000
| Subject: [Audacity-quality] http://download.cnet.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html#rateit
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:16:51 +0000
> Martyn Shaw <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> > Why does somebody say of version 2.0.2:
> > 
> > "Pure garbage ... does NOT work
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Cons
> > does not even recognize a standard .wav file. Plays nothing but
> > "white noise""?
> Very likely is isn't a standards compliant wav file, just something
> from a digital voice recorder with a .wav extension which plays in
> Windows Media player (using a low-quality, low-complexity codec).

I think so, though most such files that used to import as noise 
in older Audacity now show a "not recognised" error if libsndfile
tries them, and import correctly with FFmpeg. 

Though I have seen this "noise" complaint made against 2.0.x
handling of digital recorder files, I've never been given a file 
to prove it. 

This leaves WAV containing DTS, which do import as noise 
using both libsndfile and FFmpeg. 




Gale