![]() Once loaded, you should see at least one blue waveform appear on screen ![]() Choose the file you’d like to convert and click Open. Launch Audacity and select “File > Import > Audio”.Once you have it ready, here’s what to do: Audacity is a free, open source software available for Mac and PC. The first step will be downloading and installing Audacity (available here: ). Although many use it to record and edit audio, you can also use it to convert or transcode files. If you have a video file you need to convert, head over to our “ Video Conversion Tools” article.Īudacity is something of a standard in the audio world. It’s not quite as simple as renaming a file “Example.wma” to “Example.mp3.” If you’re totally confused, check out our blog post “ What is a Codec Anyway?” for an explanation of codecs, containers, transcoding, and more. Remember, converting or transcoding involves decoding the original file, and then encoding the file into a new format. In this article, I’ll explain how to convert/transcode an audio file using the free, open source software Audacity. Converting the file will rewrite its data into a new, hopefully more legible format for InqScribe. For example, it may be in an unsupported container or contain unsupported codecs. There are a few possible reasons why the file won’t play correctly. If this happens, don’t panic, you can usually resolve the problem by converting or transcoding the file. Have you ever come across an audio file that won’t play in InqScribe? Although InqScribe supports a wide variety of formats ( generally anything that will play in QuickTime 7 or Windows Media player 11), one day you may run into an audio file that won’t play correctly.
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