Audition CCsaving to mp3 repeatedly

Question

I read a post on here the other day about saving to MP3 without having to re-select the file type from wave to MP3 over and over and over again in the run of a workday.

Well, I understand that many folks are concerned about quality etc. and don't save to MP3 because future edits degrade the quality even further & even further, there ARE workflows , like my own, where that's not even remotely an issue and saving to MP3 and the extra steps involved, Using the standard steps, is a royal pain in the patootie.

The unsatisfying answer that was given to that post was "change your workflow" basically. The answer had said that if you do control shift save, it will remember that you used MP3 last time and it will save us MP3 again.

That is simply not true in my experience, not even remotely, nor was it true in the experience of the original poster, who was rightfully frustrated by the answer he got.

unfortunately that answer came from a moderator and that moderator closed that threat. Apparently he felt his non-answer answer was an answer-- it was not

Fortunately, I've created a new thread to explain that what you want to do is File-export the audio file.

I set up the keyboard shortcut and this works very reliably remembering MP3 each and every time and I can save the original as wave, although I have no need to because my files are all very temporary and very very briefly used - once in fact.

Some moderators need to remember that not all workflows match their own, not all business needs match their own, and not everyone should change their workflow just because the moderator doesn't have the answer to the question .

I was disgusted by what I read on here. I've been moderating online forums for over 25 years and I've never seen such a belittling and rude answer to a genuine business-need question that the software could resolve, but the moderator could not.

I freely admit I don't know everything about the software and I'm not * far* from being able to be a moderator on here -- but those who manage them should have a look at that post and this & that moderator .

I think they need to carefully decide whether or not they feel that represents the best of Adobe to its customers.

I think it does not.

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

Let me explain something to you. This is a U2U forum. It does not 'represent' Adobe. When, very rarely, Adobe staffers post they have a separate logo, so you can always tell. They are representing Adobe.

Now, this is an official Adobe explanation about saving MP3 files - from Audition's product manager:

"If you choose File > Export > File... to save your recordings, it will always remember the last-used format, so after selecting MP3 once, it will continue to default to MP3.

The File > Save or Save As for new recordings will always default to uncompressed WAV files as MP3 is a lossy format and there will always be quality degradation when compressing. We wouldn't want the default format to inadvertently reduce quality, which is why compressed formats require some intervention when using the standard Save commands."

The original question was about changing the Save or Save As defaults. As you can see, that won't be altered.

That thread was locked because the replies to it amounted to trying to shoot the messenger. That, we don't put up with. If you have a solution to a problem, then post it. But please don't fill up threads with ranting that nobody else wants to read.

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