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I cant compile mod-script-pipe in VS2008 as it requires VS2013. Any ideas or thoughts on how i can with some certainty say two audio files are "similar" You might need to go all the way back to Audacity 2.0.5 (SVN checkout revision 12701) to find a version of mod-script-pipe which will compile in V...

Unfortunately that will be no help. It is comparing sample by sample, so if the start position is just slightly off, the comparison will show that they are completely different (which they would be on a sample by sample comparison). Other differences, that could be inaudible, will show a huge diffe...

Hi Steve, The problem is that computers have no idea what things "sound" like. They are able to store and manipulate audio samples, but are totally incapable of "hearing". Specialist speech recognition software is able to apply complex pattern matching algorithms that can calculate a probability of ...

Hi Edgar/Gale, Thanks for the response. I was able to get audacity.exe (i ignored the failure). I cant compile mod-script-pipe in VS2008 as it requires VS2013. So I compiled in 2013 and placed the dll in the modules directory inside the debug/release folder. When i start audacity.exe, it says it fou...

I have two audio files, for example ingress.wav and egress.wav. How can I compare these two files to see if the contents in them are similar. What sort of similarity are you looking for? Obviously it is easy to compare the length of the two files, and the peak amplitude. It's not much more difficul...

You mean apart from listening to the two files one after the other? You can statistically compare the files in a hex editor. Are the files exactly synchronised and mono? If so, Effect > Invert one of them and play to listen to the difference between them. To see the difference, select both tracks a...

Hi all, I have two audio files, for example ingress.wav and egress.wav. How can I compare these two files to see if the contents in them are similar. I know there might be variations, so I am only looking for a value which is within an error threshold. I just want to make sure there are no dramatic ...

Hi Edgar, Thanks for the reply, that helped. I can now compile audacity in debug and when i open audacity.exe, it opens up, but when I compile audacity in release, i have the following error, 2>Performing Pre-Build Event... 1>Compiling zh_TW locale 1>'msgfmt' is not recognized as an internal or exte...

Hi, I want to use audacity to compare two audio files (network socket sends an audio file and the receiving socket puts the file together and compares with the source's audio file). Based on the audacity documentation, the scripting functionality can compare audio files and return a value based on t...