Audacity Forum

steve wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:46 am

Audacity does not operate directly on audio files - On import, the audio is copied from the audio file into the Audacity project. This is a core design feature of Audacity and of the Audacity project format.

But isn't it possible to also import the metadata into audacity??

No. When you export from Audacity, it creates a NEW file (even if you overwrite the original file, you are overwriting it with a new audio file). Wouldn't it be possible to implement this in a future update? Or are there any other software out there that allow this?? Probably the easiest solution w...

I had this problem with video files from an SD card. My solution was: DO NOT COPY the files from the card to your desired harddrive. Instead, select the "Send to" option. (You find this when you right click the relevant file.) Now select the desired drive. It will only send to the root directory. Y...

Hi, I've been searching the forum to find an answer to my question first, BUT no succes... I make alot of voice memos that I need to sort chronologically and now i just need to keep numbering them. Which is really tedious work :S Is there ANY WAY to keep the date created and date modified informatio...

Good, so that has solved the mystery. Are you aware that Macros can also be used for "batch processing"? That's where you create a macro to act on one file, then run the macro on a batch of files, and Audacity "imports -> processes -> exports" each file in turn. This would be an alternative (and po...

Ah,
My internet was a bit jacked so apologies!

It's working without any issues rn so thanks alot!!

The Limiter effect is a "Nyquist" plug-in. A limitation of Nyquist plug-ins is that when they process empty space in a track, they return silence where the empty space was, so if the selection is longer than the track, then the selected part of the track after the audio ends, will be replaced with ...

Any feedback?

It's not just the limiter that does this... It almost seems like it has more to do with doing CTRL A because when I only select one track it neatly leaves the end as is... :S

I'm using MP3 files

I noticed that this only happens AFTER using my custom macro. What settings do you have in "Edit menu > Preferences > Quality"? [/quote] Ok... SO I tested a copy of macro and each time after processing removing an effect from the chain starting at the end to the beginning... Only after removed the ...