WAV Export Options

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WAV is an uncompressed and lossless audio format PCM audio. The format is in Microsoft's Little-Endian byte order.
Advice WAV files are limited to a maximum size of 4GB - see this page for details of how that relates to maximum times.
What you hear by previewing with playback prior to export is what you will get in the Exported audio file.


Accessed by: File > Export > Export as WAV
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Format Options

The only option with WAV export is the Encoding option.

The default Encoding is 16-bit PCM which you can change from the Encoding dropdown menu.

If you do change it Audacity will remember and re-use your previous setting on next use.