First of all many congratulations of the launch of 2.0 - A fantastic achievement.
Unfortunately I have a problem that has survived from the beta versions: I am importing a CD image typically in flac into Audacity and would then like to moderate levels using ‘Amplify’ before cutting into tracks using the CUE sheet processed here: http://grimblefritz.com/audacity/cue2lbl.php
However, every time I attempt to run the Amplify command on the image file I get an error “An unhandled exception occurred” after which Audacity comprehensively crashes.
Am using Win 7 x64 on a Xeon quad core, plenty of RAM, etc.
Is this a known bug and/or is there a work around?
Have now tried the split track function and it works really well.
One idea though; would it be possible to add a sort of generic marker type (=EoF) that could be manually inserted indicating the end of a track so as not to have too much silence, but is ignored in the extraction process to preserve track numbering?
Just looking around I have one other question; am I right in thinking that the Amplify/Normalise functions have been changed? In particular is it right that Normalise now performs the function that Amplify used to do, assuming the ‘Normalise stereo channels independently’ option is left unchecked?
Does this now make Amplify redundant?
Sorry if this is a stupid question but I have been caught out on this before and wanted to make sure.
The main difference between Amplify and Normalize is that “Amplify” increases or decreases the level by a certain amount, whereas “Normalize” adjusts the level to a certain level.
The difference is most apparent if you are applying the effect to multiple tracks at the same time.
If you have two tracks and the first track has a peak level of -3 dB and the second has a peak level of -10 dB
Amplify by +3 dB and the first track will have a new peak level of 0 dB and the second track will have a new peak level of -7 dB.
Normalize to -1 dB and both tracks will have a new peak level of -1 dB.
Just to wrap up on this from my side; I am now getting to grips with using the mouse wheel for navigation and it is clearly a much better way of moving around the file. Thanks again for this great tip Steve.
The objective of all this was always to end up with some CD rips that were normalised to something less than the extreme levels that seem to be the norm these days. However, I realised that the change in the Normalise function has enabled me to use this command in a chain on CDs ripped into tracks, like I requested as a feature some time ago; that’s got to be more efficient even with faster navigation.
Having now tried that this morning I am delighted to see it works really well, although it would be nice to have the ability to specify a target directory. Furthermore, I now have a fast, reliable way of normalising my entire library of wav files and converting it to flac .
This has all sorts of advantages for me and I am simply delighted – wtg Audacity!!