Converting 48000 sample rate sounds to 44100 without breaking sound?

[ficool2]

Basically I'm porting some sounds over from another game to Source, and the sounds are in 48000 sample rate when I view them in Audacity. Source doesn't support 48000, so this means I need to change it to 44100. However, upon changing it to 44100 in Audacity, the sound has its speed and pitch changed and its no longer the same sound. Is there any way to convert sample rates while keeping the sound intact as much as possible?

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, I have 0 knowledge on how sounds function. I couldn't find a good answer anywhere after lots of searching either.

[cynaraos]

im probably as clueless as you about audacity but how are you changing the sample rate

[ficool2]

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/111014/6807cc66-c73f-46a5-a7a0-0f798faa110e/samplerate.png

I'm probably going to make an experienced Audacity user scream when they see this, who knows.

[Grodbert]

Is this an old version of Blender? /s

[Wwadlol]

The project rate (hz) at the bottom is what you're looking for. Make sure it is set at 44100, because I think I experienced a bug where it resets to 48000 when you export, but this happened only once.

[eziam1]

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107320/f9905385-6491-44f9-b10a-ce032f1106aa/resample audacity.png

[E3245]

If you're having trouble with trying to covert 48kHz wav files to 44.1kHz, might I suggest using dBpoweramp? It allows you to convert the sample down without speeding/slowing the audio down.

It has a trial, but that's only if you need to convert to MP3. It's free to use forever otherwise.

[TFA]

LameXP lets you do this en-masse with negligible quality loss

[ficool2]

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed, very simple to use and allowed me to convert an entire folder quickly without effort.

[dlight]

x4? What was the audio codec of the source files? I'd guess adpcm. Now you have raw pcm. There's nothing really you can do about it, since you need full raw for source. You could maybe check if the source had mono files that were redone in stereo. that blows it up by 2 already. If the sampling frequency was lower then 44k you have another possible increase you coulda thought about.