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Wrong documentation about importing files and bit depth? #38

Open NightProgramming opened 1 year ago

NightProgramming commented 1 year ago

Bug description

The manual says: "Generally, Audacity imports files at the sample format (bit depth) specified at Default Sample Format in Audio Settings Preferences." But the actual behavior is different.

Using Audacity 3.3.3

Steps to reproduce

  1. In Audacity set "Default Sample Format" to "24-bit" (under Edit -> Preferences -> Audio Settings).
  2. Import a 24 bit wav file.

Expected behavior

What the manual says (Audacity should import the file using the specified default sample format, 24 bit in this case).

Actual behavior

File is imported with 32 bit depth.

Audacity Version

latest stable version (from audacityteam.org/download)

Operating system

Windows

Additional context

Also the table below the quoted statement in the docs contradicts the quoted statement.

LWinterberg commented 1 year ago

If you scroll down a bit more, it'll also tell you this:

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Edit: NVM, this issue is about the specific sentence in the manual, not the general concept.

NightProgramming commented 1 year ago

Yes, it's just about the one sentence (sorry if this was not very clear). As a newbie I read the sentence and then looked at the table, and was confused and thought the table must be wrong, and then tried it out and found out the sentence is wrong. So the overall experience was a bit confusing (and time consuming).