I just downloaded the new 2.4.1 on Windows 7. It runs better for me than 2.3.3
An issue I had on 2.3.3, and still on 2.4.1 is getting different results for running ACX Check on 5 min samples vs. 25 minute sample sizes.
I am keeping the clips broken to under the :37-ish minute/100M bit max.
On 2.3.3: A 5 min clip results Peak Level -3.2dB (my target); the :25 Minute clip shows -5.4 dB
On 2.4.1: 5-min : -3.2 dB, any clip over about 10 min runs to completion, but then doesn’t give me the Results Dialog box.
Peak RMS is about the same for both short and longer samples.
May I assume the shorter clips are more accurate?
Any advice for checking long files? My project runs about 50-55 min per chapter/file.
ACX Check had a unfortunate reaction to 2.4.1. When your INFO panel vanishes, the tools is actually crashing and leaving some memory debris behind. Don’t do that very often, or if you do, save your work and restart Audacity.
This is the way you had to check ACX in the fourteenth century. It still works, but you have to make allowances for some of the instructions being out of date.
It’s not as bad as it looks. Once you get going it isn’t that many clicks and drags. The instructions look like a college course, much like the three volume set “How to Ride A Bicycle.”
After I wrote that, Flynwill thought there had to be a way to simplify all that clicking and dragging → ACX-Check. Audiobook production is pretty popular on the forum.
Analyze > Contrast is a lot more talented since I wrote that. You can get it to give you Noise and RMS in one panel and it resets itself at the end.
It’s still “soft” recommended you work in mono, one blue wave instead of stereo, two waves. All the tools simplify, it takes up half the storage, posts in half the time, and the customer won’t notice. ACX recommends mono for audiobooks.
There is one more exotic reason to post in mono. There is a common microphone connection error that becomes obvious or gets solved when you convert a stereo read to mono.
Make sure you use the June 10th version. I changed the process around a little to simplify keystrokes.
We who are pounding away on a revised ACX Check want to know what you picked to measure noise. How do you manage Room Tone? Noise is a home reader nightmare.