Audacity Forum

On topic but not specific to the current discussion. Probably better as a new topic in one of the Help forums I am trying to use the Analyze tool Which "Analyze tool"? Do you mean the "Contrast" tool? What operating system are you using? What is the exact version of Audacity you...

kozikowski wrote:Audiobook Production

I like that.

I still think that we will also need to tweak the forum description. As shown here the descriptions says:

Audiobook Authors
Community Blog for Audiobook Authors

so we change that to....

Audiobook Producers
???

or

Audiobook Production
???

But if you want to try anyway, Audacity has "Chains" which is a batch processor. If you wish to do that (given the "quality issue" that Koz mentioned) and each track is less than 10 minutes duration, then you can use the "Extract Audio" plug-in in a chain (download fro...

Ensure that playback is "stopped" and not just "paused".

Interesting they consider there that libvo-aacenc is the worst quality of all the AAC encoders and the native FFmpeg AAC encoder almost the best. According to: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC#WhichencodershouldIuseWhatprovidesthebestquality " Which encoder should I use? What provides t...

Does the m-box show up as a recording device in the Windows Sound Control Panel? If it does, then you should be able to use it as a recording device in Audacity by selecting it in the device toolbar.

"Audiobook Producers" looks better to me (taking the term "producer" in the general sense). Perhaps also changing the description (suggestions?)

Topic moved to the Windows forum.

I'm not sure what your question is. Are you asking, "will Audacity work with an m-box" or "will an m-box work on your (obsolete) XP computer"?

What is an "MLX 909"? I looked on Google but that said it was a type of boiler

Yes you can use the Equalization effect, but use the "Draw Curve" view rather than the "graphic equalizer" sliders. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/equalization.html Here's an example of a very deep and steep bandpass filter. Note the positions of the slider controls as well...

What I'm actually trying to do is just normalize the peaks of several M4A loss-less files. Or, in other words, amplify the waveform until the highest peak of each track is just under clipping. I want to do this because some of the songs in my music collection is just so much quieter than other song...