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Here's the patch to go with the screenshots.

Is there any quick way of doing an Automatic Level Control recording, by having the song start out as loud as possible? No, not with Audacity. Is there a way to get Audacity to automatically export a song by starting out with the highest level recording without distorting the song? No. The approach...

Edgar wrote:If we MUST use a Yes/No dialog which will pop up every time <shudder>

<shudder>
I agree, not nice.

If we have a "don't show this again", I don't think that we can avoid having a preference setting.

Atifazim.1 wrote:it's just a tiny audio clip of me playing guitar.

OK, so how did you record it? What equipment? What settings? Model numbers can be useful.

Had a similar problem even though I HAD selected some audio. Turns out that the track can't be in "pause" mode. Hit stop and the effects got un-grayed. Hope this helps someone. Possibly a bit late, given that you are replying to a post that is over 5 years old ;) but yes you are correct -...

urielofir1 wrote:I'll be glad to send you the file via email.

All that will prove is that your way does not work.
Why not try it in the way described in the manual? http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... rdubs.html

I was thinking that it would be nice if selecting an existing file to export the spectrum to could pop up a simple message box (wxMessageBox) that would say something like: A file named "/path/spectrum.txt" already exists. [ Overwrite ] [ Append ] [ Cancel ] Unfortunately (unless Edgar kno...

I compute the percent change compared to the original recording Ah ha! I think that's where the difference is occurring. There are two ways that the % can be calculated: (change/original) * 100 or (change/new) * 100 You're using the former. Audacity uses the latter. See here: http://manual.audacity...

When applying a Chain to files and using one of the export commands, the exported files are placed in a sub-folder, which for historical reasons is called "cleaned". http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/apply_chain.html If you had the full power of Chain commands available on import (inclu...