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And you're determined not to tell us what they are?
Koz

Analyze > Silence Finder.

The tool which deletes the silences may be a custom tool.

Here's one. Everything in one tool.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... lence.html

Koz

You want to do two jobs. Noise Gate will recognize quiet segments and reduce the volume to zero, but it doesn't make the show any shorter.

Then software that recognizes dead silence and deletes it from the show. I think there's a tool to do that. I need to look.

Koz

Who is the manufacturer? did you contact them? What did Google have to say about it? If you're on Windows, you can force it to show you filename extensions. People forget Windows intentionally hides them. Hidden File Extensions -- Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > [ ] Hide Extens...

The problem is people needing different results when they change the loudness of their tracks, and they supply sometimes very different clips and songs to do it. One size doesn't fit everybody. There is a thing called Sound Check on an iPod which is supposed to even out the sounds in your playlists....

The Batch system in Audacity is called Chains. All of the tools and filters have not been written to support chains yet.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Edit_Chains

Koz

Not all computers support Self Recording. It's not a guaranteed service.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

Koz

Without actually trying to figure out what you did... Read one chapter without stopping. Press Stop. Get a glass of water and when you're ready to start the next chapter, Press Append Record (Shift-R) and start talking. Continue until you finish the story. Press Stop the last time. Create a music fi...

Please don't double post. New postings have to be moderated before they go live. You need to describe what you're recording, how everything is connected what computer you have, operating system and which version of Audacity. When you're recording, do both red recording meters move exactly the same. ...

a stereo USB preamplifier

Whose name and part number is?
Koz