Audacity Forum

reside in the computer. Good Computer Hygiene tells us to be able to point to two separate places that contain your valuable work. So the computer hard drive and a thumb drive count. Separate hard drive is OK. Cloud storage counts. Two partitions on one hard drive does not count. That pointing meta...

Please note there is no "compression" step in Mastering 4. That's no accident.

Koz

That can be a little crazy. You can ACX Check a raw recording to see if you may need to fix your microphone before you do anything else. You can go 'round and 'round for weeks with a broken microphone, environment, or recording system. Also, raw is the one we're going to want if you post looking for...

ACX Check only tests for technical conformance. It can't tell theatrical quality. Somebody with a damaged voice or uncomfortable reading style can sail right by ACX Check and still produce an unlistenable product. ACX uses technical conformance as a first step and then subjects the work to Human Qua...

him watching a Webiair he heard about ACX Check and RMS Normalise

Which webinar?

Koz

Home reading audiobooks is not for the easily frightened. I hope to goodness you have WAV or Audacity Projects of each raw chapter of the read. We can't take effects, corrections or filters out of a production. Once you master, that's the end of the world. There is a published ACX Mastering process....

I don't think you ever said you were using ACX Check for your work. Are you?

Koz

Their requirements now are for 192kbps MP3 files. As far as I know, they have been for quite a while. The bare minimum for any mono presentation is around 32 quality-fixed bitrate. That's when many people start to hear something wrong with the sound. ACX chooses 192 quality—which seems like overkil...

Use the drop-down menu to the left of the track > Split Stereo Track. Leave the two tracks Left and Right. It's a simple matter to Make Stereo Track when you're done.

Koz

Audacity show the complete project's waveform but can't play it?

The waveform comes from graphic files, not the show sound. It's a mistake to think all those little AU files are sound.

Koz