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By default, Audacity uses LAME for writing MP3s, but it appears that LAME does not support id3v2 chapter frames. Audacity is able to use FFmpeg for exporting, but I've not yet found any documentation to confirm that FFmpeg supports writing MP3 Chapter frames (I've only found documentation about read...

The current version of Audacity is 2.3.1 https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

dwatkinsss wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 4:03 pm

Got a message stating that another copy of Audacity is running

See here in the manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq ... ml#already

mikeypam wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 8:30 pm

IE Truncate silence from .25 to 1.0 by 50% and leave all silence above 50% as is.

Select "Compress Excess Silence".

You could use a Macro (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html)
but if all that you want to do is to convert the format ("transcode"), then other programs (such as foobar2000 or TAudioConverter) are easier, quicker, better options.

For a new project that has not previously been saved, "Save Project" allows you to give the project a name and specify where it is saved. For a project that has already been saved, "Save Project" overwrites / updates the saved project. "Save Project As" allows you to gi...

That image is showing libmp3lame64bit.dylib, which is the LAME library.
LAME and FFmpeg are different things.
See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#macff

mikeypam wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 4:21 pm

My results are the same?

Perhaps you've not got the update yet (?)

In Audacity 2.3.1, "Truncate Silence" is still in the Effect menu: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tru ... lence.html

tracek84 wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 2:40 pm

Can you perhaps point me to the relevant piece in the source code?

See TrackArtist https://github.com/audacity/audacity/bl ... Artist.cpp

In Audacity 2.3.1, the Nyquist Prompt is in the "Tools" menu: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_prompt.html