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And as a programmer the last thing I want to be is a burden. Hardly that. The support record goes to Ian in Hollywood (a real place) who wanted to read for audiobooks in his apartment. Just over a year and 39 forum chapters—and we succeeded. But he had a ton of interacting conventional problems and...

It's not the worst idea to listen to existing audiobooks to get meter and rhythm. Any public library can handle that for zero dollars.

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Koz

That keeps confusing me.

Yes. The super quiet background sound for audiobooks is -60dB.

Koz

Like anything else I can try that might help? You're having an odd/serious problem with Audacity on Linux and the only real support is the forum. We would normally be waiting for someone to arrive that has the same machine config that you do to compare notes. This isn't a help desk although it can ...

One option is Corel Video Studio We did it in Final Cut Pro. We had a little trick. If the DVD wasn't large enough for uncompressed PCM (standard stereo), we would create a two-channel Dolby "surround" and send that. Since it's compressed, it took up less space and since the PCM was missi...

5.1 or "Dolby Surround" is a licensed process. There may be a "fake" way of producing surround similar to the "Lame" software to make MP3 files—also until recently a licensed process.

Koz

once recorded I'm going to have a billion questions about how to get it to sound good and how to make myself sound less bad, eh? Two problems with that. ACX's goal is for you to sound as natural as possible "No Distractions" pops up several times in their instructions. That's what kills p...

The red lines indicate the sound at that tiny instant got too loud or close to being too loud. If you can't hear any damage, cracking, clicking, ticking or harsh noises, it's probably OK. If your show has a lot of red lines... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ShowClipping.jpg That's probably serio...

Your job doesn't work very well with conventional sound measuring techniques.

Koz

The RMS level is -25.5 db. That's impossible. The ACX Mastering Suite guarantees peak and RMS. The only crazy number is noise. Are you setting each tool according to the settings in the web page? https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering Select the whole chapter. Effect > Equalization ...