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The problem was that "silence" level of your waveform was already a bit below the centre line. It is called "DC Offset". Amplifying has just increased (amplified) the distance. The DC Offset needs to fixed as the first step after recording (before any editing or other processing)...

When programming, it is essential that the program can handle every possible case that it could be exposed to. For a robust program there must be no possible input that can create an "undefined" result. The problem with having a maximum sound length setting can be seen in this example. Say...

It sounds more like a synthesized voice than background noise. Consequently I don't know which part of the sound you want to remove.

I would highly recommend having only one version of Audacity installed. It is possible to have multiple versions (and often necessary for the people that are testing pre-release versions), but you have to use "Portable Settings" for at least one version so as to prevent them from overwriti...

What are you recording? What is the audio source into the Xitel INport?

Ok but you could still provide a .rpm and .deb package, which are the most used. So could you, it's open source :shock: . Do you have the resources to produce, test and distribute deb and rpm packages (32 and 64 bit) for Debian 10, 11, 12 and current versions of Fedora, OpenSuse, OpenMandriva and w...

What are you recording?

Ensure that "Sound Activated Recording" is NOT enabled in "Transport menu > Transport Options".

You may have pressed the "F6" key. Press "F1" to get back to normal.
See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tools_toolbar.html

We only supply source code for Linux. Binary packages are supplied by the package maintainers of each Linux distribution.This is standard practice for Linux because there are so many different Linux distributions.

I wrote this on Linux (with Python 3.6.9) so it will need to be adapted for Windows. Also, I've only tested with a handful of files. I don't know how many files it can handle in one run. I'd suggest that you test with just a few files then gradually increase the number of files. If it fails after a ...