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kozikowski wrote:Do you think that Car Talk® clip meets ACX standards?

Which clip is that? Is it this one: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 92#p241092

So we're in 'Secret Aural Teachings" territory and it's perfectly possible and expected for ACX to reject weeks of finished product. Not helpful. Perhaps a bit harsh. An alternative view: ACX are in the business of acquiring audio books for commercial publication. Customers that purchase the a...

Noise "Removal" is probably not a good name. Better would be Noise "Reduction". Reducing noise is always a trade-off between the amount of (bad) noise removed and the quality of the (good) audio that is retained. Attempting to "eradicate" the noise will invariably have ...

The most common cause of Audacity locking up on Linux is when PulseAudio stalls. My analysis of the problem (I'm not a developer, so take this with a pinch of salt, but it holds with the symptoms that I observe): Unlike most other audio programs, Audacity starts a new audio stream every time that pl...

ram_nagapuri wrote:Can I find audacity Noise Removal code in "C" any where?

Audacity is mostly programmed in C++.
The source code for the Noise Removal effect is here:
http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/auda ... emoval.cpp
Why do I feel like I'm repeating myself?

Still searching for a plug-in -- or something -- that squashes the highs and lows. Try this: 1) Amplify effect (default settings) 2) Compressor effect: Threshold -30 Noise floor: -30 Ratio: 10:1 Attack time: 0.1 Release time: 1.0 Make-up gain: No (not selected) Based on peaks: Yes (selected) 3) Equ...

What they definitely don't want is: "talk, talk, talk | (absolute silence) | talk, talk, talk.." because that is completely unnatural and is more distracting for the listener than having a small amount of noise ("room tone"). I don't remember seeing that in the ACX Requirements ...

N871 wrote:if you resample a track to a higher resolution, and you resample back to the original, is there any loss of quality?
Thanks for all your help!

Possibly, it depends how you do it, but in any case, not much.

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