Audacity Forum

I think I may have found a bug. I can't post a revised version here as the plug-in is "All rights reserved - Permission granted for personal use, without redistribution." However, if you want to try my proposed fix, open the plug-in in a text editor and find the word "nil" on line 289. Change it fro...

... Ubuntu one. It's not that I'm mad for using them, since I am happy with Chris's dynamics compressor and Leveller, but I'd like to know if there is a reason for that. Were the Ubuntu ...

Have you checked that the "converted" file is identical to the original? If you start with a 32 bit file and end up with a 16 bit file then it's not identical. I suspect that during the conversion there has been a tiny bit of "dither noise" added so that silent samples are no longer absolutely sile...

... external application (in this case I used SoundConverter and transcoded the file to FLAC). Then I opened the new file with Audacity, applied the compressor and... voilà! Worked like a charm! Have you checked that the "converted" file is identical to the original? If you start with a 32 bit file ...

... the truncated files: That happened to me just 2 days ago when working with an mp3 file. The last 15-20 seconds just disappeared after applying the compressor. It was very annoying, but I found a workaround to prevent this. I wasn't sure if it was a bug, and if it was I couldn't know if it was Audacity's ...

You can also use Chris's Compressor which takes a more active role in volume leveling. This one changes individual phrases and segments ...

2. When applied to a piece 90 seconds long it compressed the first 6 seconds of speech then truncated the file at that point so that 1 min 24 of audio was lost. Is there a reason this might happen and a setting I can change to prevent this? I've just had a look at this, and there's definitely a bug...

Steve & Koz, Thanks for the helpful comments. re: The Chris Compressor truncation problem. I was running AUD ver 1.3.9 when I first noticed that problem. Ive tested the same 90 second audio file in AUD version 1.2.6 and it shows the same truncation problem. ...

... radio is your friend. You can post your enjoyment of the software on Chris's web site. http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ I still think he has no idea what he did. You can spell his name wrong and he's ...

1) It's a "bug" or "limitation" of the compressor, but a difficult one to fix in the code. The reason that it happens is because the effect is trying to keep a more even "average" volume level. Of course, when it gets to the end, the volume ...