Audacity Forum

Funnily enough I'm using Dropbox at the moment to upload my old audio files to my producer. As I don't need the sample analysed now then I'll leave it unless you guys want to se it for some reason.

Sorry everyone - I've tried twice to upload a sample clip. Both times I've had this error message: Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 140924128 Varnish cache server Whatever that means. What's worse it then locks me out of this web site for up to 4 hours so I'm not going to try again. I have ...

Koz, thanks for all that. By the way I am listening with a rather expensive pair of headphones. As for the 'someone coming up with the software to automate the process' I wasn't thinking of you guys who clearly do an outstanding job. But clearly both Amazon and CreateSpace thought it worthwhile to d...

Yes I've read those guidelines till I'm blue in the face and with the help of this forum thought I'd got to the bottom of them. Clearly I failed. However you haven't answered my previous point about using the 'generate silence' feature of Audacity in an automatic manner except to say it breaks up th...

I don't get that - the gaps between words are already there and set by the narrator. As I said I can manually add silence in those gaps and it doesn't distort the narration, in fact I have done so in quite a few places in the book where the noise cancellation didn't get rid of a residual noise and t...

Good replies thank you BUT both are from experts in audio production which I am not. Some years ago I started self publishing on Amazon. There were several ways to produce Kindle files all requiring separates conversion software and a good level of technical knowledge. Now all you have to do is uplo...

I finally finished my audio book a few days ago and uploaded it to ACX. I used the ACX check plug in to ensure that all files passed the ACX requirements. Silly me. One feature I used to reduce the noise floor to within limits was to use the noise reduction facility in Audacity. Two days after uploa...

Brilliant reply and thanks for that - I don't seem to have wasted any time talking to me an my microphone!!

Flynwill, Hi I'm able to get all my tracks in ACX limits now but would like to refer back to the OP. In an earlier post you talked about the ACX giving a 'status A RMS' value but it doesn't actually do that - it gives an RMS Level and then a separate value for 'A-weighted' - is this the one you mean...

So - a happy day recording and saving then normalising to get ACX check to give the seal of approval. I also experimented with microphone record levels to get good sound - great. Er then I saved 6 chapters as MP3s and when I re-imported them the peak and rms values had shifted. I am now exporting as...