command to find loudest sample in selection, possible?

You mean this one? https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/change-speed-stretch-audio-to-a-specified-length/23332/1

If you open the .ny file in your text editor, you will see that most of the code is just handling the input and checking for stupid user errors :wink: It’s only when you get to the final line that it actually does something. Does this look familiar:

(force-srate new-srate s)