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That sounds like it - please add my vote.

Thanks Steve.

Thanks for the solution. Seems a bit long winded. Has Audacity not considered a single button, somewhere in the interface, "scan levels" to give both the peak and RMS levels for the current selection ? I must admit, only just started to look at Audacity; not fully got to grips with the "philosophy" ...

Hello,
in order to compare some audio files,
how can I find out the existing peak and RMS levels for given file?

Thanks for any info.

I'm working on a really old install of XP . Late tonight, I uninstalled and reinstalled my chipset drivers. (It's a five year old Nvidia Nforce board with AMD processor). It's not 100% clean, the uninstall of one of the components (SATA IDE driver) doesn't work through add/remove programs, it's not ...

Steve, I'll have a chance to see where I am with this on Monday. It's installed in XP SP3, but I have dual boot with Vista Ultimate, I could try it there as well. I checked the registry, the key mentioned was empty, so it looks as if I should be good regarding 2.0 preferences. I've seen this odd beh...

It's possible that some of what I'm seeing is due to the computer. It's 5 years old, so it's not state of the art. I find with a 2 hour wav, it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to read it in and be available. Possibly be due to what - my HDD speed and/or RAM availability? (I have 2GB) It takes about the s...

"Copy All Work Before Editing" was deselected upon install of 2.0. In other programs I've tried that execute these slow import operations (eg. Sound Forge) you can minimize the import window, and the main window while the import is in progress. It doesn't steal the focus, or stop other things from s...

Thanks you - I'll try these settings and report back -
Dave

Hello Audacity team. I would like to point out something that severely affects the usability of the product. When you import a large file, (I imported a 2 hour WAV file), that takes a while to import (a few minutes on my PC). You can not minimize the product and it kind of takes over Windows until t...