When I open 5.1 flac or wav files the rears(bottom channels on audacity) are uneven. Audacity is making one louder than other when they should be identical.
what is the issue? why? This is happening every time I open a file.
Assuming the sound quality is OK, you can adjust the volume with the Amplify effect, the Normalize effect, or the Loudness Normalization effect. You can select one channel at a time or normalize everything (or the selected channels) together.
Maybe it is dvd audio extractor ripping them uneven?
We know it’s not Audacity… It’s pretty much impossible to “accidentally” change the volume of a WAV or FLAC file.
It might be possible for something to go wrong when decoding one of the more-compressed formats but I’ve never heard of that happening. There is some playback-volume metadata in Dolby AC3 files and sometimes that gets ignored but it’s for the whole file, not channel-by-channel.