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And so, using a bit better terminology, Google quickly led me to this free tool. No VST host or plugin required.

This works for me, maybe others will find it a handy thing.

https://www.orban.com/meter

That would be a "meter". Traditionally, that would have been a VU meter . Now they are usually LEDs or some kind of digital display and they are calibrated to show the peaks (which is different from a true VU meter). Still, sometimes they are called "VU meters". The easiest thing would be hardware ...

I'm sorry if the title is a bit confusing, but I really don't know what the thing I want would be called. In Windows 10, you can view the average power output from the system to the "speakers" in the Playback devices dialog... But it's just a combined channel output level display. And almost as accu...

Thanks, I'll be checking that out.

Thanks, Trebor, for your response. Still, my system/preferences were more informational than relevant to the actual question, just in case it made a difference. Nonetheless, I managed to find an acceptable answer through several other sites. Ultimately it lead me back to ffmpeg's documentation where...

Greets, Hopefully this is a quick and simple to answer question. If not... sorry. I'm running the Audacity 2.1.3 with ffmpeg and lame libraries as they are recommended by Audacity (if you want that functionality) on Windows 10 and I use 64 bit apps whenever offered the option. I'm having NO troubles...

Sweet

Thanks for the info/heads-up!

haha, okay. Just because it seems a pretty important question to me, doesn't mean it is to most folk I guess. Really, I'm just glad I had actually checked those places first... It's just that age is getting to be tricky on me. Information could be there and I just plain miss it or don't think the ri...

Actually, since your sig mentions 9/10 questions are answered in the FAQ...

Shouldn't this be there too? Or if it is, why is it not under the Playback section. =D At least until this behavior changes LOL

Perfect! Thank you very much.