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Doug30455229846m
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October 4, 2023
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Saving in Audition

  • October 4, 2023
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Why does Audition default to saving as a .wav? I save as .mp3 for all my work and it's annoying that I have to select .mp3 every time

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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October 4, 2023

The other reason is that wav is Audition's working format, so it makes sense to save it that way. To add a bit to what Euan said about repeated editing - if you decide you want to do some more work on a file, and you've saved it only as an MP3, then to rework it you have to decode what you previously encoded - which is where the quality drop comes in. And every time you do it, this gets worse.

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Doug30455229846mAuthor
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October 4, 2023

You're assuming that the mp3 will be "reworked". The type of work I do requires mp3's that don't need reworking. Why not leave it up to the user as to how he/she wants to default the saving process like it always was in the past?

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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October 4, 2023

I didn't assume anything, and as far as I'm aware, the saving process has always worked like this.

EuanWilliamson
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EuanWilliamsonCommunity Expert
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October 4, 2023

The main reason is that WAV is a lossless format.
MP3 is lossy and so only suitable for final delivery.

So WAV is better for repeated editing.

As Audition can't guess your usage, it's in a sense trying to save the best quality. 
https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/whats-the-difference-between-file-formats.html#:~:text=WAV%20uses%20PCM%20(Pulse%20Code,is%20no%20data%20loss%20whatsoever.

 

Best regards, Euan.
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