Audacity Forum

I'm sure it's intentional. -20dB is far from silence... Originally that control was a drop-down list and you could only select -20, -30, -40 ... -80. It was changed to a text box so that you could select, for example, -25 dB. The manual for the next Audacity release says: Threshold can take values ...

steve wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:33 am

Did you install those other apps from Apple Store?

The reason that I mention that is because Apple strongly favor apps that are either shipped with macOS or installed from the Apple Store.
Apple's default strategy for other apps is to block them.

Unfortunately this does not appear to be possible to automate with that audio. Here's the problem. Try running this code: ;version 4 ;type analyze ;control num "Minimum run of samples" int "" 10 1 100 ;control thresh "Silence threshold (dB)" int "" -80 -120 -2...

Surely a shorter file should get smaller, not larger. For uncompressed audio formats (such as WAV) then yes it would be smaller (unless you changed the format, such as going from mono to stereo). For compressed formats (such as MP3) there is a trade-off between file size and sound quality. Encoding...

michaeljshaw wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:56 pm

We could see the Recording meter pick up audio

Which "Recording meter"? The one in Audacity?

Ensure that you are using the current version of Audacity (see: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/)
and ensure that Audacity has permission to use the microphone (see: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/m ... b1e1fe/mac)

Which exact version of Audacity are you using? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity")
Which version of Windows?

Please post the link here, but remove the "http://" part (we don't want to give them free advertising )

As a preliminary test, try running this code on a short section of the track that contains dropouts. To run the code, copy and paste it into the Nyquist Prompt and click the OK button to apply (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_prompt.html) ;version 4 ;type process (setf num 3) (let (...

mismatched sample rate between DAW and the hardware When you say "DAW" do you mean Audacity? If so, which version do you have? If you have Audacity 2.4.2 there should have been labels added at each of those silences (they are called "dropouts"), unless you disabled "Detect ...