Audacity Forum

Like for example I have a recording where a sample fades in and out at the beginning and end, a long period of silence, then another sample fades in. If I use Truncate Silence part of the fade will be deleted. Not necessarily. If the recording was made at a higher sample format than 16-bit and then...

If you're looking at silences greater than one millisecond, I'd suggest that you use Truncate Silence. Even though the minimum detection level is "only" -80 dB, that is a very low level and very unlikely to occur within normal audio.

What's the length of the shortest silence that you want to remove (approximately)?

What you're doing sounds correct. I wonder what we are missing. I set the Selection Start & End times appropriately and play the selection to check it's the bit that I want. How exactly are you setting the Start and End times? When you do that, is the section between Start and End highlighted? (...

Does the current Alpha have some form of a Trim (front/back/both) command/Effect which could be run before finding silences? You can trim a specified number of seconds from each end. Here's an example macro script: SelectTime:End="2" Start="0" Delete: SelectTime:End="2"...

I am using Audacity to display infrasound spectra, meaning below 20 Hz, and as low as for example 0.01 Hz. I'm sure that you will agree that is unusual. The minimum frequency for spectrogram settings when "linear" scale is selected is 0 Hz. 0Hz cannot be represented on a logarithmic scale...

A quick way to find the precise peak level: 1) Select the audio that you are interested in 2) Open the "Amplify" effect (don't apply the effect) 3) Look at the "Amplification (dB)" figure. That shows how many dB to amplify up to 0 dB. Example, if the "Amplification (dB)"...

How many characters are there in the drama? On thing I would recommend is that you create some kind of "storyboard" (probably on paper so that you can flick through pages easily). This is similar to a script, but less detailed. It lays out the structure and time-line of the drama rather th...

Which means that if you right click there now - and then select Zoom Reset you will get your full-height waves displayed in the collapsed track OK if you only have a couple of tracks, but the main purpose of collapsing tracks is to improve usability when you have a lot of tracks. Having to manually...

I've also noticed that if I was zoomed in on, say the lower half of the waveform before collapsing the track (I may be more interested in the lower half if the waveform is asymmetric), in 2.2.1 and earlier I could collapse the track and my view of the lower half would be restored when I restore the ...