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I have tested it on a selection of three tracks Have you tried testing on tracks where you easily check what the correct values should be? The " Contrast " tool will give you the RMS level of a selection, so if a track contains a section that is a continuous tone, and that part has the hi...

Are you using PulseAudio as described here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tut ... linux.html

Kieutrang wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:56 pm

When opening a 16-bit PCM wav file and resaving it, it's not identical.

Yes, that's normal.
Audacity's settings are optimised for "using" Audacity, not for running artificial tests.

See here for an explanation as to why this happens: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/dither.html

Sher_90 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:49 am

several hundred hours of recording have been made of the site above and others. It was done without audacity.

If you've already got recordings, then why not simply import those recordings into Audacity for editing (saving you hundreds of hours)?

See if this fixes it: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq ... k.html#usb

And a control to allow users to chose the length of the time window. I predicted that you might want to do that ;), so it's dead easy. Just remove or comment out the line: (setf rms-rate 10.0) Then either replace it directly with a control, for example: ;control rms-rate "RMS rate" float ...

Sher_90 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:19 am

Attempting to record live streaming audio music?

Is that from a website, or from a game, or something else?
How are you doing that?

If you make a normal microphone recording, does that work?

See if this helps: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=103573

What are you trying to record?

Spoiler alert - If you want to work it out yourself, don't scroll down the code below. I'll get back to you with some example code. Here: ;nyquist plug-in ;version 4 ;type analyze ;name "Measure Highest RMS" ;action "Measuring RMS level of the loudest section" ;release 1.0.1 ;cop...