I’m very pleased that Audacity exists and is great audio editing tool, but…
#1 When I encode my audio files to MP3 and such, there is no option
for “Private/Copyright/Original bit” to be set? -That must be fixed.
#2 I can’t seem to find option that you could decide
which ID tags version you use to embed information to audio.
#3 If there is audio that is almost silent;
like -49dB, It would be nice if it could select all audio below
some dB limit and it will be set to true silence (-INFdB?) and all audio
that surrounds the “silenced” spot will be smoothly Faded Out/In.
<<<#3 If there is audio that is almost silent;
like -49dB, It would be nice if it could select all audio below
some dB limit and it will be set to true silence (-INFdB?) and all audio
that surrounds the “silenced” spot will be smoothly Faded Out/In.>>>
“Must”?
I don’t think that it’s practical for Audacity to try and support every variation of metadata for every file type and every vendor variation across multiple computer platforms - there are just too many variations. The Audacity Metadata editor is designed to provide basic support across all file formats that support metadata and across multiple platforms (Windows/Mac/Nix). For more specific metadata support it is recommended that you use your usual media player/tag editor which will ensure that you get full compatibility with your system.
The Noise Gate plug-in up to version 2.2 does not gate to total silence (unless used on 16 bit audio with dither switched off in Audacity Preferences, which is not recommended). Version 2.3 does support gating to silence (for 32 bit audio) and will be posted on the same forum thread as soon as I finish writing the help screens.
(Previous versions can gate down to -96 dB below the original audio level, which is extremely close to silence - typically around -150 dBFS.)