Saving to Flac and dither

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January 22, 2019
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When I am saving a 32 bit wav-format to a 16 bit flac file does it automatically add dither? Or do I have to choose that by hand?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_

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I tried this - it appears not to*. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest, as Audition doesn't do very much 'automatically', generally preferring to give users a choice.

*(32-bit mono file with digital silence as a part of it looks identical if you save as 16-bit Flac. If dither was being added, then it would have been visible easily.)

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mjb2022

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Just for the benefit of anyone stumbling across this thread before the others where this came up:

There's an old bug where, after editing a file in something other than 32-bit mode, the save dialog's dither setting is treated as its opposite—i.e., Enabled means Disabled, and Disabled means Enabled (well, sorta... what gets dithered is only whatever samples have been modified or added).

There are two workarounds. The obvious one is when saving from the 16-bit editing mode, just set dither to Enabled when you actually want it disabled. The other workaround is to switch into 32-bit mode by converting the sample type (Shift+T) to 32-bit before saving. This can be before or after you make your edits. Then just ensure when saving that you choose 16-bit with no dither; the dither setting be fully respected.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

My understanding is that the 'bug' was not entirely reproducible...

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