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Truncate Silence
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... lence.html

pszkraba wrote:I'm a complete beginner with Audacity, so I really don't know what to do with the code you provided.

1) Select the audio track (as you would for applying any other effect.
2) Effect menu > Nyquist Prompt
3) Copy and paste the code into the text box.
4) Click the "OK" button.

Forgive my ignorance as I've just started using Auadacity, but what's the 0.7071 in the Low Pass Filter? I just get 2 fields--rolloff and cutoff frequency? Older versions of Audacity had a third control for setting "q" (the filter quality). That control has now been removed and the effect...

Have you found the setting in iTunes where you select whether to create an audio CD or a data CD? It should be set for "audio CD" but is probably set to "data CD".

For "real" 5.1 sound you would start with a multi-track recording. The tracks can then be "panned", "filtered" and "delayed" to the appropriate speakers to create the desired spacial effect. If you are starting from a stereo mix, the best that you can do is to...

what would you recommend as the highest safe(ish) normalize peak target if I am encoding recordings which contain only speech, in which there is a very wide dynamic range, and the target file format is, at worst, a VBR mp3 with Quality set to number 6 - 95..135kbps If you've not applied dynamic com...

Which is your audio sample?
I can see where you are trying to get to, but what is your starting point?

Trebor wrote:All my attempts to break it have failed.

Good, that's what I like to hear
Thanks for testing it.

More than anything else these GUI posts were meant to generate some conversation about what was possible and desired. Although I have not commented much, I have been following these GUI posts with interest. The "proposals" may never be implemented in their current form, but eventually cus...

I notice in other discussions here that some of you experts advise setting normalise to less than 0.0dB (I seem to remember reading various figures between -1.0dB and -3.0dB). I would like to understand why you don't advise setting the peak level right up to 0.0dB ? Modern D/A converters (digital t...