Changing sampling rate in Wave Editor?

[Amasake]

Hello! I'm trying to use my MacMini to create some simple recordings to be used on phone lines. I used Audacity to record my voice & slap a music bed underneath, saved as a .wav no problem.

Now I need to compress that 44 kHz/16 bit file to 8 kHz/8 bit.

Doesn't look like Audacity can do that (pleeeease correct me if I'm wrong though!) so after some research I downloaded a 15-day trial of Wave Editor, which supposedly can change sampling & bit rate??? Or so the reviews say.

I've figured out how to switch to 8-bit ("save as" and then change the settings) but unfortunately couldn't find where I could change sampling rate.

Can anyone help a girl out here? I'd be much obliged!

Or maybe I need a different sound editing program, instead of Wave Editor?

Hoping someone can help me. Thanks very much & have a great Labor Day weekend...

Carolyn

 

[ChrisA]

For many years I've used "sox", a command line program to do simple file conversions like that. But Audacity should be able to do what you need. Maybe it's because you are looking for a funtion caled "compress" when what you need to do is really called "resample". The two are different.

Any reason why you did not use Garage Band for this project?