WAV Export Options - Audacity Manual

# WAV Export Options

From Audacity Development Manual
WAV is an uncompressed and lossless audio format PCM audio. The format is in Microsoft's Little-Endian byte order.

| 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.

- When using Export Audacity will only export tracks that are not grayed-out by use of the Mute or Solo buttons in the tracks' Track Control Panels.
- Also note that any hidden parts of audio clips are not exported, see Audio Tracks and Clips.

  Accessed by: File > Export > Export as WAV

## 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.